Magnolia Plantation, built in 1858, is a private residence located on Louisiana Highway 311, west of New Orleans and three miles south of Schriever, Louisiana. The plantation was built to cultivate sugar cane, which was a critical part of Terrebonne Parish's antebellum economy. The plantation house is one of six surviving Greek Revival plantation houses in the parish.[2] A portion of the film 12 Years a Slave was filmed at the plantation.[3]
The plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1] According to the List of plantations in Louisiana, Magnolia was given National Historic Landmark status on January 3, 1998.
Constructed in 1834 along Little Bayou Black, this two-story house was built by Thomas Ellis constructed of cypress cut by slaves. Ellis's daughter Eliza married Confederate general Braxton Bragg here. A productive sugar plantation, during the Civil War, Magnolia was used as a hospital by Federal troops. John Jackson Shaffer bought the property in 1874 and it is still occupied by direct descendents. Located on La. Hwy. 311, three miles south of Schriever.