Why a plantation house fire ignited a heated debate over slavery’s legacy. A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil ...

The Nottoway Plantation, a monument to Southern grandeur built on the backs of enslaved Black people, has been destroyed by a fire that raged for nearly 40 hours beginning late May 15. The inferno ...

Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved. When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15 ...

Fire crews mover a line around the now fully engulfed the Nottoway Plantation on Thursday, May 15, 2025 in White Castle, La. Michael Johnson / AP Its website describes it as "the South's largest ...

America’s largest remaining antebellum plantation home burned down –– Black social media users react. Louisiana’s Nottoway Resort, a historic 64-room, 53,000-square-foot plantation home ...

Firefighters from Baton Rouge battle a blaze as flames burst from the roof of the Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, La., on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Years ago, I was having a long lunch with a ...

The Largest Antebellum Plantation In the U.S. Went Up In Flames on Video — Here’s What Happened. A massive fire destroyed Louisiana’s Nottoway Resort, a former plantation turned wedding venue.

Crews continued to douse water onto Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation on Friday morning, May 16, after a devastating fire decimated the historic mansion. First responders from various agencies ...

WHITE CASTLE, La. — On the front lawn of the now-destroyed Nottoway Plantation were charred relics of atrocities gone by: a pair of flat-back rocking chairs, a wooden end table, and other sorry ...

The morning after Nottoway plantation fire near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, photos and videos show that the mansion is a total loss.

Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana, built in 1859, burned down on Thursday with officials investigating the cause of the fire. The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned ...

Nottoway was a sugar plantation operated and constructed by slave labor on behalf of John Hampden Randolph in 1859. The 165-room home became a museum in the 1980s, opening its doors to visitors ...