Woodland Plantation (West Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana)

Woodland Plantation, in West Pointe à la Hache, Louisiana, is a historic building and a former plantation house. It is located at 21997 Louisiana Highway 23 in West Pointe à la Hache, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. This plantation was once worked by enslaved people. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 18, 1998.

Woodland Plantation
A Home on the Mississippi, Currier and Ives, 1871[1]
Location21997 LA 23, West Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana
Coordinates29°35′2.62″N 89°49′36.83″W
Built1855
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.98000702 [2]
Added to NRHPJune 18, 1998
Vintage Southern Comfort bottle with label showing an illustration of Woodland Plantation. The label was subsequently redesigned in 2010.

Woodland Plantation is depicted in A Home on the Mississippi, an 1871 lithograph;[3] which later was licensed for use on the label of Southern Comfort after Prohibition ended. Privately owned, the location has most recently operated as a bed and breakfast.[4]

  • Woodland Plantation
  • Woodland in 2016
  • Slave cabin at Woodland

Since the 1930s, the image on the label of Southern Comfort has been a rendering by Alfred Waud of Currier & Ives' A Home on the Mississippi, depicting Woodland Plantation. In 2010, Southern Comfort was rebranded and the company dropped the plantation image from the label.[5]

Celebrity guests have included Jason Statham, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Snoop Dogg.

References
  1. Commissioned by the U.S. government as part of a documentary program on the Mississippi River, by Alfred Waud depicting Woodland Plantation (Dolan, Michael (2004). The American Porch, p.152. The Lyons Press. ISBN 1-59228-271-7.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  3. "Woodland Plantation, State Route 23, West Pointe A La Hache, Plaquemines Parish, LA". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  4. "Venice, Louisiana". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-03-23. The home, which sits on the west bank of the Mississippi, is now a bed-and-breakfast that serves anglers returning to the mouth of the Mississippi to get in some sports fishing.
  5. "Before & After: Southern Comfort Rebranding", The Dieline, May 19, 2010
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