The Battle of Cloutierville

Fire in 1864 did not end Magnolia. Ursula Atala LeComte and her husband Mathew Hertzog, who had taken over the plantation soon after their 1852 marriage, rebuilt the house and the other damaged buildings. For roughly the next century the place anchored a community of Black residents, mostly Protestant, and Creoles of color, mostly Catholic, many of whom leased land as tenant farmers. Hertzog descendants kept living in the main house until 2000, and in December 2022 the house and grounds were added to the park's authorized boundary.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Augustine Church, Isle Brevelle — 3.7 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.
• Melrose Plantation — 3.9 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.
• Kisatchie National Forest: Longleaf Vista — 6.0 mi
  A free ridge-top overlook and 1.5-mile loop above the 8,700-acre Kisatchie Hills Wilderness on the Longleaf Trail Scenic Byway, in the forest Caroline Dormon helped win in 1930.
• Cane River Creole National Historical Park — 8.8 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.

More markers nearby

• The Cost of Cotton — steps away
• Escaped! Freedom Seekers in 1804 — steps away
• Escaped! Freedom Seekers in 1863 — steps away
• Unearthing The Past — steps away