Bertaut Plantation, Donaldsonville, Louisiana

The structure was built in the early 1800's and moved several times due to the Mississippi River changing its course over the years. The flood control act in the 1920's began the current Mississippi River Flood Protection Levee System. The third time it was disassembled it was never rebuilt. The "Edgar Bertaut Sr." tract of land is 240 acres of sugar cane with several oil and gas wells that are no longer producing.

One of dozens of actual 4 inch Cannonball's fired by Admiral Farraguts Union Navy Gunships at or into the Bertaut Plantation as they sailed north up the Mississippi river during the War Between the States!

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