The fire at Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, LA—just outside Baton Rouge—broke out around 2pm on Thursday, May 15 and reduced the 160-year-old landmark to rubble. It was first ignited in ...

The Nottoway Plantation is one of the largest antebellum homes in the South, and was built by enslaved people. Fire ripped through the historic Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana. The mansion ...

The largest remaining antebellum plantation mansion in the South has burned to the ground. Fire crews worked 18 hours late last week trying to extinguish the fire that eventually engulfed the ...

Since May 15, when the news broke of a fire which burned Nottoway Plantation, the largest antebellum plantation in the South, to the ground, Black folks have been sharing their excitement all ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The largest remaining antebellum plantation mansion in the South has burned to the ...

Michael Johnson New Orleans Advocate The largest remaining antebellum plantation mansion in the South has burned to the ground. Fire crews worked 18 hours late last week trying to extinguish the ...

After the nation’s largest antebellum mansion, Nottoway Plantation, burned to the ground in an unexpected and devastating fire, the owners are sharing what’s next. Last week, just days after ...

The Nottoway Plantation fire reignited national debate over how slavery-era landmarks are remembered. Reactions were split, with the Black community calling the destruction a form of payback.