Historical Marker
Winter Quarters Plantation
Newellton, Tensas County · Louisiana
Erected 1962
Haller Nutt held about 43,000 acres and roughly 800 enslaved people across Louisiana and Mississippi, and more than 300 of them lived at Winter Quarters, which had grown from a hunting lodge of 1805 to over 2,000 acres. In 1863 its overseer obtained letters of protection from Union generals James McPherson and John Smith. The plantation was the only one in northeast Louisiana's Delta parishes to escape burning. Nutt still lost heavily to cotton destroyed and supplies seized, and he died in June 1864. The state later made it a historic site, which is closed indefinitely.
Where it stands
32.01803, -91.16600 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Lake Bruin State Park — 4.6 miA state park on a Mississippi River oxbow near St. Joseph, named for a territorial judge who owned a plantation beside it, on a former fish hatchery site.
- Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 24 miNearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.
More markers nearby
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- Henry Watkins Allen — 7.3 mi
- Franklin Plantation — 7.3 mi
- Davis Plantations — 7.5 mi