Fashion Plantation

Richard Taylor persuaded his father, Zachary Taylor, to buy this sugar plantation in 1850, and under him it grew to nearly 200 enslaved people. A freeze in 1856 destroyed the crop and left the property heavily mortgaged. His biographers note that he opposed secession, yet took a Confederate commission under Braxton Bragg and rose to lieutenant general. After the war he became a leading political opponent of Reconstruction. The war destroyed the house and the sugar works.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 2.4 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Whitney Plantation — 16 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 19 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 20 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Flagville — 0.6 mi
• "Denver" — 1.0 mi
• Home Place — 1.1 mi
• Watercolors — 1.7 mi