Pvt. Joe Fluker C.S.A. Died Here

The Fluker family's home, Asphodel, rested on cotton. Benjamin Kendrick, a planter, built the house around 1830, and enslaved people worked its fields. In 1838 it passed to his daughter Isabella and her husband, Colonel David Jones Fluker, and Audubon painted portraits of Isabella and two of her sons there. During the 1863 siege of Port Hudson, Union soldiers set the house afire, but the flames went out. Restoration began in 1949, and the house and its cemetery joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Audubon State Historic Site — 6.4 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 — 9.8 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.
• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 11 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.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 25 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Burial Site of Lt. Col. John C. McKowen — steps away
• Battle of Jackson, Station Five — steps away
• Battle of Jackson, Station Four — steps away
• Battle of Jackson, Station Three — steps away