Long Home Site

One Winnfield household sent a whole family into public life. Of the three sons born here, George S. Long, born in 1883, served in the Oklahoma House from 1920 to 1922, then was elected to Congress from Louisiana and served from January 1953 until his death on March 22, 1958. Earl became governor three times. Huey was governor and senator. After Huey's assassination in 1935, his widow Rose McConnell Long was appointed to his Senate seat, and his son Russell B. Long served as senator from 1948 to 1987.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cane River Creole National Historical Park — 28 mi
  Oakland and Magnolia, two Cane River cotton plantations kept as they stood, told through the enslaved families who worked them, the 1864 and 1804 freedom seekers and the tenant farmers who stayed into the 1960s.
• Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site — 29 mi
  A reconstruction of the 1716 French fort beside the Natchitoches village, with a palisade of nearly 2,000 pine logs, a chapel and storeroom, and living-history programs, open Wednesday to Sunday.
• Melrose Plantation — 30 mi
  The Cane River estate built on land granted to Louis Metoyer, son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin, with the Yucca House and African House, later an artists' retreat; guided tours Thursday to Sunday.
• St. Augustine Church, Isle Brevelle — 31 mi
  The parish church at the heart of the Cane River Creoles of color, begun by Augustin Metoyer on his family's land and still holding Mass for the community that grew from Marie Thérèse Coincoin's children.

More markers nearby

• Earl Kemp Long — steps away
• Bank of Winnfield & Law Office of Huey P. Long — 0.4 mi
• Huey Pierce Long — 0.5 mi
• Gum Springs Bombing Range Accident Memorial — 9.1 mi