Audubon State Historic Site
Audubon State Historic Site is a state park property in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, between the towns of St. Francisville and Jackson. It is the location where noted ornithologist and artist John James Audubon spent the summer of 1821.
Visitors come to see Oakley Plantation house, where Audubon lived at the time, and the surrounding plantation grounds. A portion of the 100-acre (0.40 km2) site contains the forest which served as a setting for many of the 32 Birds of America paintings that Audubon created or began while at Oakley.[1]
Plantation house
Built circa 1806, the Oakley Plantation house is an example of early Anglo-American architecture in Louisiana, located on its historic site. Its interior rooms have been renovated in the style of the Federal period.
Audubon spent four months at the home in 1821, teaching Eliza Pirrie, the teen-aged daughter of the plantation's owners James Pirrie and Lucretia "Lucy" Alston (Pirrie), to draw. This is when he completed his nature drawings on the site.[2]
The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 for its historical significance.[1]
Photo gallery
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| Rear view of Oakley Plantation house |
| Children's room in the home |
| Slave cabin on the grounds |
| Oakley Plantation gardens |
| Front view of Oakley Plantation house |
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External links
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| State Preservation Area | |
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| State Forests | |
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| State Wildlife Refuges |
- Elmer's Island
- Marsh Island
- Rockefeller
- St. Tammany
- State
- Terrebonne Barrier Islands
- White Lake Wetlands
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| Wildlife management areas |
- Acadiana Conservation Corridor
- Atchafalaya Delta
- Attakapas
- Barataria Preserve
- Bayou Macon
- Bayou Pierre
- Ben's Creek
- Big Colewa Bayou
- Big Lake
- Biloxi
- Bodcau
- Boeuf
- Bonnet Carré Spillway
- Buckhorn
- Camp Beauregard
- Catahoula Lake
- Clear Creek
- Dewey Wills
- Elbow Slough
- Elm Hall
- Floy Ward McElroy
- Fort Polk
- Grassy Lake
- Hutchinson Creek
- Indian Bayou
- Jackson Bienville
- Joyce
- Lake Boeuf
- Lake Ramsey Savannah
- Little River
- Loggy Bayou
- Manchac
- Marsh Bayou
- Maurepas Swamp
- Old River Control
- Ouachita
- Pass A Loutre
- Pearl River
- Peason Ridge
- Pointe-aux-Chenes
- Pomme de Terre
- Red River
- Russell Sage
- Sabine Island
- Sabine
- Salvador/Timken
- Sandy Hollow
- Sherburne
- Sicily Island Hills
- Soda Lake
- Spring Bayou
- Tangipahoa Parish School Board
- Thistlethwaite
- Three Rivers
- Tunica Hills
- Union
- Walnut Hill
- West Bay
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