Monday, February 28, 2022

Ouida Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana


Ouida Plantation
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Photo Credit: Dr. Antoinette Harrell

Ouida Plantation contains about 475 acres of land in West Feliciana. In 1881, he married Rosa Routh Ker daughter of Captain John Ker and the former Rose Routh of Ouida Plantation in West Feliciana.  Gob. Foster Murphy and his wife purchased abandoned plantation near Franklin., and named it "Dixie."


Source: Foster (Murphy J. Ande Family) Papers (Mss. 4710)  Inventory, Compiled by Charles F. Thomas

Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection, Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1998

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