SW of Springfield on SR 1038, Springfield, Louisiana. County/parish: Livingston.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 23, 1979. NRIS 79001069.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Carter Plantation, also known as the Carter House, is an historic plantation house located at 30325 Carter Cemetery Road, southwest of Springfield in what is now Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States.
The property was purchased by Thomas Freeman in 1817, from James Rheem, who acquired it from a Spanish land grant in 1804. Freeman, a free person of color, who was a slave owner and the first African American to own property in the Greensburg District (St. Helena Parish), the southern portion of which became Livingston Parish.
The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1979.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73973975