Largest Antebellum Plantation Home In U.S. Destroyed By Fire
Nottoway Plantation, the South’s largest antebellum mansion, has been destroyed by fire. Nearly a dozen fire departments showed up in White Castle, Louisiana to put out the flames at the 53,000-square-foot structure, but it was declared a total loss. A Monument to a Complex Past Nottoway Plantation was owned by sugar planter John Hampden Randolph…