Henry Watkins Allen

Henry Watkins Allen planted cotton near Newellton, in a parish where about nine in ten people were enslaved by 1861, and sugar at Allendale in West Baton Rouge. He became colonel of the 4th Louisiana, was wounded at Shiloh and Baton Rouge, and made brigadier general in 1863. The government he served was founded to protect slavery. As governor of Confederate Louisiana from January 1864 to June 1865 he ruled from Shreveport, opened a cotton route through Texas to Mexico and set up state stores. He fled to Mexico after the surrender and died in Mexico City in 1866.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bruin State Park — 10 mi
  A state park on a Mississippi River oxbow near St. Joseph, named for a territorial judge who owned a plantation beside it, on a former fish hatchery site.
• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 17 mi
  Nearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.

More markers nearby

• Franklin Plantation — steps away
• Davis Plantations — 1.2 mi
• Linwood Plantation — 6.3 mi
• Winter Quarters Plantation — 7.3 mi