Lakeport Plantation
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Lakeport Plantation
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Lakeport Plantation, 2008
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Nearest city | Shives, Arkansas |
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Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha) |
Built | ca. 1859 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP Reference # | 74000466[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 20, 1974 |
Lakeport Plantation is a historic antebellum plantation house near Lake Village, Arkansas.
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History
The mansion was built circa 1859 [2] for Lycurgus Johnson. It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style.[3] The plantation boomed as cotton prices increased until the end of the Civil War, which freed the slaves on whom the plantation economy depended, and devastated the South.
See also
- List of plantations in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicot County, Arkansas
References
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- ↑ Matthew D. Therrell and David W. Stahle, "Tree-Ring Dating of An Arkansas Antebellum Plantation House," Tree-Ring Research 68(2012): 59-67; Thomas A. DeBlack, "A Garden in the Wilderness: The Johnsons and the Making of Lakeport Plantation" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arkansas, 1995).
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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Categories:
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
- Greek Revival houses in Arkansas
- Houses completed in 1850
- Houses in Chicot County, Arkansas
- Plantation houses in Arkansas
- Museums in Chicot County, Arkansas
- Historic house museums in Arkansas
- Arkansas State University
- University museums in Arkansas
- Cotton plantations in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places in Chicot County, Arkansas
- Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs