Lakeport Plantation

Lakeport Plantation
Lakeport Plantation, 2008
Nearest city Shives, Arkansas
Coordinates 33°15′24″N 91°9′19″W / 33.25667°N 91.15528°W / 33.25667; -91.15528Coordinates: 33°15′24″N 91°9′19″W / 33.25667°N 91.15528°W / 33.25667; -91.15528
Area 5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built ca. 1859
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 74000466[1]
Added to NRHP November 20, 1974

Lakeport Plantation is a historic antebellum plantation house near Lake Village, Arkansas and Greenville, Mississippi. Restored between 2003 and 2008, it is now a museum and Arkansas State University Heritage Site.

History

The mansion was built circa 1859 [2] for Lycurgus Johnson. It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style.[3] The plantation boomed as cotton prices increased until the end of the Civil War, which freed the slaves on whom the plantation economy depended, and devastated the South.

See also

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Matthew D. Therrell and David W. Stahle, "Tree-Ring Dating of An Arkansas Antebellum Plantation House," Tree-Ring Research 68(2012): 59-67; Thomas A. DeBlack, "A Garden in the Wilderness: The Johnsons and the Making of Lakeport Plantation" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arkansas, 1995).
  3. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Lakeport Plantation" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-04-14.


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