Burnside is an

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, United States. It was founded by French and

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settlers in 1726, early in the French colonial period. The ZIP Code for Burnside is 70738. The community's name is for John Burnside, an

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who owned ''

The Houmas The Houmas, also known as Burnside Plantation and currently known as Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, is a historic Plantation complexes in the Southern United States, plantation complex and Historic house museum, house museum in Burnside, L ...

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plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

from 1857 until his death in 1881. In 1860, Burnside owned more than 800 slaves according to the 1860 Louisiana Slave census of the US government. There are three local sites which have been listed on the

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at one time or another: ''

'' plantation, ''Tezcuco'' plantation, and St. Joseph's School,

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