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Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Old home with mud walls built by mulattoes now a part of the John Henry cotton plantation. It was originally the house built on the Yucca Plantation by Augustin Metoyier in 1824 and later after the big house was built it was used as a slave hospital. It was s
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Credit lineMelrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Old home with mud walls built by mulattoes now a part of the John Henry cotton plantation. It was originally the house built on the Yucca Plantation by Augusti. 1940-01-01. Wolcott, Marion Post. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.