Linwood Plantation

This parish is named for the Taensa, who lived beside Lake St. Joseph when Henri de Tonti reached them with La Salle's expedition in 1682. He described mud-walled cabins with cane-thatched roofs and a temple holding wooden and clay figures, an eternal flame and the body of the chief. Descent ran through the mother's line, and the Taensa farmed, hunted and traded salt. They moved often: Bayou Manchac, the country north of Mobile Bay, the Red River, and by 1812 Bayou Tensas near the Chitimacha. Their language was still spoken in the late 1800s.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bruin State Park — 5.0 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 — 23 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

• Winter Quarters Plantation — 0.9 mi
• Henry Watkins Allen — 6.3 mi
• Franklin Plantation — 6.3 mi
• Davis Plantations — 6.6 mi