Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site Maps

Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site Description

Rosedown Plantation is located in the West Feliciana Parish community of St. Francisville along one of the most historic corridors in South Louisiana. The historic presence of the River created deep soil deposits to form uplands that became, in the days of the cotton boom, extremely productive and valuable. In addition to the natural flats, creeks draining to the River created some expanses of rugged, heavily treed terrain that became profitable as timberland. The parents of Daniel and Martha (Barrow) Turnbull achieved high social status in West Feliciana through their immense cotton operatio