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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 the original house built on the "Yucca Plantation" by Augustin Metoyier in 1824, and later, after 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 the original house built on the "Yucca Plantation" by August. 1940-01-01. Wolcott, Marion Post. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.