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Battleground Plantation

Battleground Plantation
Battleground Plantation is located in Louisiana
Battleground Plantation
Battleground Plantation is located in the US
Battleground Plantation
Nearest city Sicily Island, Louisiana, U.S.
Coordinates 31°53′45″N 91°39′23″W / 31.89583°N 91.65639°W / 31.89583; -91.65639Coordinates: 31°53′45″N 91°39′23″W / 31.89583°N 91.65639°W / 31.89583; -91.65639
Built 1829-1830, c.1850
Built by Dr. Henry J. Peck
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 79001056
Added to NRHP May 14, 1979

The Battleground Plantation is or was a Southern plantation with a historic mansion located four miles north of the town of Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

The plantation house was built in 1829-1830 and was substantially modified into Greek Revival style in about 1850. The house has a front gallery with six columns. Its interior has mantels of various styles including Renaissance Revival and Gothic Revival.

The property was deemed significant as the home of Dr. Henry J. Peck (1803-1881), as the site of the last major battle between the French and the Natchez Indians, and architecturally as "a fine example of a moderately-sized Greek Revival plantation house."

The plantation house may have been moved or may no longer exist: a U.S. topographical map marked with its location, in its NRHP nomination, shows it located off Louisiana Highway 15 on one of several roads ambiguously named "Ditto and Gamble Road", but in 2017 Google Maps' satellite view shows only empty fields.

There is a related historic house, Lovelace-Peck House, on Lake Lovelace south of Sicily Island.

There was an archeological study of a Natchez Indian site at Battleground Plantation.

A 2002 guidebook mentioned that Battleground Plantation was open by appointment, and that the c.1830 house "retains much of its beautiful original woodwork".


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