Sunday, May 18, 2025

Nottoway Plantation Burns!

Nottoway Plantation falls to flames. The souls lost to American slavery and apartheid find retribution.

It appears that Black America gives zero fucks about a controversial historic monument.

The Nottoway Plantation was a historic plantation house located near White Castle, Louisiana, United States. The home was a Greek Revival and Italianate-styled mansion built for John Hampden Randolph in 1859. With 53,000 square feet (4,900 m2) of floor space, it was the largest surviving antebellum plantation house in the Southern United States until destroyed by a fire on May 15, 2025. Several dependencies and historic structures remain intact on site.

Flames ripped through a massive mansion in Louisiana, destroying much of the historic structure that was used as a plantation house when it was completed in 1859, authorities said.

The fire that engulfed the Nottoway Plantation House on Thursday devastated the building along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Iberville Parish President Chris Daigle said on social media. Nearly a dozen fire departments from surrounding towns battled the blaze, he said. No injuries were reported.

What fire?

Before the fire, it was a resort and event venue, and its website described it as “the South’s largest remaining antebellum mansion.” Daigle called it “a cornerstone of our tourism economy and a site of national significance.”

The 53,000-square-foot (4,924-square-meter) home on a former sugar plantation about 65 miles (105 kilometers) northwest of New Orleans had a three-story rotunda adorned with giant white columns and hand-carved Italian marble fireplaces, according to a description on its website.

The mansion’s owner, Louisiana attorney Dan Dyess, said in a written statement that the fire had led to a “total loss” after all the time and money he invested in the building.

“We are devastated and heartbroken for this loss,” he said. “This was my dream that has now been dashed.”

Photos from local news outlets showed a giant orange wall of fire consuming the upper portion of the rotunda and sending a plume of thick smoke into the sky.

The fire has been contained, and no other properties were harmed, said Maj. Monty Migliacio of the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office. Other structures on the grounds have been preserved, parish officials said.

“We are at the beginning phases of the investigation, we don’t know how the fire began and our objective is to determine how it started,” Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal Public Affairs Director Ken Pastorick said.

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