Scott's Bluff

Before the university came, the village of Scotlandville held only one Black family, William Dreher Kelly and his wife Priscilla. The state bought 531 acres for Southern in 1912, and the Great Migration then drew Black residents until it was the state's largest majority-Black community. After World War II veterans such as Acie Belton led voter drives. In 1946 only 137 Black voters were registered in the parish; within a few years there were more than 2,000, and the Second Ward Voters League grew from the effort.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Capitol — 4.5 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.
• Capitol Park Museum — 4.7 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Old State Capitol — 5.2 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 9.0 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback — steps away
• Dr. Julia Brogdon Purnell — steps away
• Southern University — 1.1 mi
• Ceremonial Indian Mound — 4.4 mi