Woodland Plantation (West Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana)

29°35′2.62″N 89°49′36.83″W

Woodland Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
A Home on the Mississippi, Currier and Ives, 1871[1]
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Location	21997 LA 23, West Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana
Coordinates	29°35′2.62″N 89°49′36.83″W
Built	1855
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	98000702 [2]
Added to NRHP	June 18, 1998

Vintage Southern Comfort bottle with label showing an illustration of Woodland Plantation. The label was subsequently redesigned in 2010.

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 sugar plantation was once worked by enslaved people. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 18, 1998.

The St. Patrick's Catholic Church was moved to the grounds of the Plantation in 1998 in order to preserve it. The church is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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
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  Woodland in 2016
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  Slave cabin at Woodland

In popular culture

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.

See also

• List of plantations in Louisiana
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

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 March 23, 2022.
4. "Venice, Louisiana". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 23, 2022. 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