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Marengo Plantation House (Catahoula Parish, Louisiana)
The Marengo Plantation House is a historic plantation house in unincorporated Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, west of Jonesville, Louisiana behind the Little River levee. The house was built in the 1850s and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. History In 1858, the surrounding plantation experienced a major flood. Architecture The house is a large galleried cottage that is transitional between Greek Revival and Italianate architecture. It also blends traditional French and English floor plans. The second story is a garret with an open room at the top of the stairs with four bedrooms. The front and back of the house both have large dormers A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. A dormer window (also called ''dormer'') is a form of roof window. Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable spac .... See also * List of plantations in Louisiana * National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Highway 84
U.S. Route 84 (US 84) is an east–westUS 84 was signed north-south in parts of Colorado and New Mexico. United States Numbered Highway that started as a short Georgia–Alabama route in the original 1926 scheme. Later, in 1941, it had been extended all the way to Colorado. The highway's eastern terminus is a short distance east of Midway, Georgia, at an Interchange with I-95. The road continues toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean as a county road. Its western terminus is in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, at an intersection with US 160. The section from Brunswick, Georgia, to Roscoe, Texas, has been designated by five state legislatures as part of the El Camino East–West Corridor. The designation was in recognition of its history as a migration route from the Atlantic coast to the present Mexican border, one of the routes that Spanish settlers called '' El Camino Real''. (In Louisiana, the route was called the Harrisonburg Road.) The designation is intended to promote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
