Linwood

Albert G. Carter built Linwood about 1848 on a Spanish land grant that had come down in his family. By 1860 he held 95 people in bondage there, in 19 slave dwellings, and none of those cabins survive. They were the hands in the cane Sarah Morgan watched being processed after she and her family fled Baton Rouge and took shelter here from September 1862 to April 1863. Port Hudson's guns sounded about three miles off, and the Union army later used the plantation's sugarhouse as a hospital.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 4.9 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 7.5 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 10 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 19 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.

More markers nearby

• Battle of the Plains Store — 2.9 mi
• U.S. Navy 8 - Inch Shell Gun — 4.1 mi
• U.S. Navy 42-Pounder Gun, Model 1816 On Barbette Carriage — 4.2 mi
• Port Hudson — 4.2 mi