Yucca House

What the ground says about Yucca House differs from older tellings. A 1970s assessment dated it to the mid-1790s, but three land surveys of 1813 put Louis Metoyer's residence south of the Red River, and ceramics suggest occupation began after 1810. Excavated glass and nails show people living here around 1807-1821, 1874-1888 and 1916-1930. The name Yucca Plantation has no documentary support, so older dates and names should be read with care. Cammie Henry oversaw its renovation in those last years.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Melrose Plantation — steps away
  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 — 0.6 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.
• Cane River Creole National Historical Park — 4.9 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.
• Kisatchie National Forest: Longleaf Vista — 8.8 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.

More markers nearby

• African House and Clementine Hunter's Murals — steps away
• Clementine Hunter Home and Studio — steps away
• Big House — steps away
• Ghana House — steps away