Built 1835 NRHP Reference # 86001054 Added to NRHP 15 May 1986 | Architectural style French Creole Opened 1835 Nearest city Vacherie | |
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Similar St Joseph Plantation, Laura Plantation, Oak Alley Plantation | ||
Desire plantation, also known as Alcidesire, is a historic Perique tobacco plantation built circa 1835, and located in Vacherie, Louisiana, St. James Parish. The plantation house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
History
Desire LeBlanc was born in 1831, the son of Dominique LeBlanc and Perosine Bourgeois. He married Aglaé Bourgeois in 1854 and had a daughter, Alcidie LeBlanc, in the same year.
In April 1885, Alcide married Louis S. Webre, who bought the Bellevue (Belleview) Plantation located on Bayou Grosse Tete in Iberville Parish. They had a son, Joseph M. Webre, in 1888.
References
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