Oakland Plantation (Outbuildings)

Oakland's farm buildings tell the working side of the place. Counts differ: one list gives 27 historic outbuildings, among them a carpenter's shop that is still intact, a corn crib, a cattle corral, a dipping vat, a hen house, a fattening pen, a turkey shed, two pigeonniers and a doctor's cottage, while the park's own page speaks of nearly 60 historic buildings. The park is restoring the plantation to its look around 1960, just before the last tenant family left.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cane River Creole National Historical Park — steps away
  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.
• Melrose Plantation — 5.0 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 — 5.3 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.
• Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site — 7.8 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.

More markers nearby

• Hollywood Comes to Oakland Plantation — steps away
• Creole Architecture — steps away
• The Sound of Time (Oakland Bell) — steps away
• Working Iron — steps away