On May 15, 2025, the Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana—once the South’s largest antebellum mansion—was engulfed ...

The nation’s largest antebellum mansion burned down in what authorities think was an electrical fire last week.

Last Thursday in White Castle, Louisiana, the Nottoway Plantation House, considered the largest antebellum mansion in the ...

The Nottoway Plantation fire has sparked a discussion on race and history, as well as mixed social media reactions since the ...

Why a plantation house fire ignited a heated debate over slavery’s legacy - A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s ...

Material history, including at places such as Nottoway, has messages for people studying Black history.

Nottoway, the oldest and largest Southern plantation house burned down, sparking debates about erased history at the ...

Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South, where scores of ...

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...

Some want it rebuilt. Others say it’s time to move on. Nottoway’s destruction is forcing Louisiana to confront what—and ...

Columnist Issac J. Bailey writes about the complex legacy of Nottoway Plantation, the largest antebellum mansion in the South ...

Although Nottoway was a sugar plantation built and operated by slaves in 1859, unless they are students of history, the ...