Desire Plantation House

	Desire Plantation
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Vacherie, Louisiana
Coordinates	29°56′39″N 90°41′32″W / 29.94417°N 90.69222°W
Built	1835
Architectural style	French Creole
NRHP reference No.	86001054
Added to NRHP	15 May 1986

Desire plantation, also known as Alcidesire,^[2] is a historic Perique tobacco plantation built circa 1835, and located in Vacherie, Louisiana, St. James Parish. The plantation house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

History

Desire LeBlanc was born in 1831, the son of Dominique LeBlanc and Perosine Bourgeois. He married Aglaé Bourgeois in 1854 and had a daughter, Alcidie LeBlanc, in the same year.

In April 1885, Alcidie married Louis S. Webre, who bought the Bellevue (Belleview) Plantation located on Bayou Grosse Tete in Iberville Parish. They had a son, Joseph M. Webre, in 1888.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Mary Ann Sternberg (1996/2001/2013 Third Edition). Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway. Louisiana State University Press. p. 285. Retrieved June 30, 2014. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ "Desire Plantation" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved June 30, 2014.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[Desire_(Alcidesire)_Plantation-2] Mary Ann Sternberg (1996/2001/2013 Third Edition). Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway. Louisiana State University Press. p. 285. Retrieved June 30, 2014. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[Webre-LeBlanc_Family_Papers,_Mss._#4145,_Louisiana_and_Lower_Mississippi_Valley_Collections,_LSU_Libraries,_Baton_Rouge,_La-3] "Desire Plantation" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved June 30, 2014.

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