She was born in the 1880s into a sharecropper family and resided the majority of her life at the Melrose plantation in Natchitoches, Louisiana. “They opened up Melrose plantation as an artist salon.

Another notable site is Melrose Plantation, a well-preserved antebellum mansion providing insight into the region’s plantation economy. Additionally, the William Johnson House, once home to a free ...

The Prince George fire flared up in an area where firefighters were conducting a prescribed or controlled burn earlier this week near the Arcadia Plantation ... the towns of Melrose, Tryon ...