3110 Highway 494, Natchitoches, LA 71457

Here is your chance to own a unique piece of history. Offered fully furnished, Cherokee Plantation is an excellent example of a Creole Cottage, at traditional building type indigenous to Louisiana. The tall, single-story house was raised on brick piers, approximately six feet above grade. The floors, walls, and the massive hipped roof were built of traditional heavy timber construction, using hand-hewn cypress. The walls of the four original central rooms were filled between the studs, posts and braces with bousillage, a mixture of mud and moss, Interior walls were painted, and exterior walls sheathed in weatherboards. Cherokee was a part of a Spanish land grant issued to Philippe Frederique and Jacques Faure in 1795. The house dates back to some years before 1839 when Emile Sompayrac purchased teh plantation from his father-in-law Narcisse Prud'homme and altered the house for his wife Clarisse. In that same year, the famous Bossier-Gaiennie dual was fought at the rear of the … read more …