NW of Cheneyville on Loyd Bridge Rd., Cheneyville, Louisiana. County/parish: Rapides.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 29, 1977. NRIS 77000678.
2 contributing buildings.
Loyd Hall Plantation is located in Cheneyville, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1977.
Loyd Hall was built around 1820 by William Loyd, who was executed in the house by Union troops in 1864 on suspicion of being a double spy for both the Union and the Confederate States of America. He was tarred and feathered and then hanged in front of his home.
In 1934 the plantation was bought by Mary Raxsdale, whose brother John Clarence Raxsdale Sr. supervised renovation of the Hall. After Mary's death in 1946, the plantation was sold to the Fitzgerald family. Today the plantation consists of a 640-acre working farm and a bed and breakfast.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73974486