Belle Alliance Plantation

Belle Alliance is an Italianate and Greek Revival plantation house in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, U.S.A. It is the namesake of the unincorporated community of Belle Alliance.[2][3]

Belle Alliance
Belle Alliance Plantation is located in Louisiana
Belle Alliance Plantation
Belle Alliance Plantation is located in the United States
Belle Alliance Plantation
LocationAlong Louisiana Highway 308, about 0.62 miles (1.00 km) northeast of Belle Rose, Louisiana
Nearest cityBelle Alliance, Louisiana
Coordinates30°03′20″N 91°02′00″W
Area5.98 acres (2.42 ha)
Built1846
ArchitectPaul Andry
Architectural styleItalianate, Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.98001425[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 23, 1998

The town and the plantation are located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche, about 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Donaldsonville and about 0.62 miles (1.00 km) northeast of Belle Rose.

During the 1770s, this 7,000-acre (28 km2) plot was granted to Don Juan Vives, a physician and military officer of the Spanish government.[4] The Belle Alliance plantation house was built by Charles Anton Kock, a successful planter who used the forced labor of enslaved people to grow sugar and also owned the St. Emma Plantation around 1846.[5]

The plantation house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Leeper, Clare D'Artois (October 19, 2012). Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries. LSU Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-8071-4740-5.
  3. National Register Staff (August 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Belle Alliance". National Park Service. Retrieved March 19, 2018. With sixteen photos from 1998.
  4. "The Assumption Parish LAGenWeb Project: Belle Alliance Plantation". sites.rootsweb.com.
  5. "Belle Alliance Plantation - Donaldsonville, LA - 70346 Attractions, Tourist". www.discoverourtown.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2020.


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