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Consider this your invitation to enjoy all that West Feliciana Parish and Town of St. Francisville, Louisiana have to offer you and your family. Experience our southern hospitality as you explore our quaint small town, enjoy our fantastic shopping, admire our breathtaking scenery, and so much more! Whether you're coming for history, shopping or the outdoors, you'll find what you're looking for
in West Feliciana Parish.
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Happenings - What's Going On This Week & Next
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What's happening this week & near future in St. Francisville, Louisiana.
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Silent Auction Grace Episcopal Church is holding a silent auction which began February 21 and runs through March 28. Everyone in the community is invited to come and placed bids on the items which are on display from 9 am until 5 pm everyday of the week in Jackson Hall. Offerings range from gourmet dinners in private homes, crawfish boils, hunting & fishing trips, paintings, overnights, jewelry, pottery and much more. The winners will be announced at coffee hour on Sunday, March 28. All proceeds will be used to build a church in El Carmen, Honduras. Live Music at The Mag Bands start playing around 7 o’clock on the screened in porch at The Magnolia Café. Friday, March 12 – Will Westley; Friday, March 19 – Flatbed Honeymoon; Friday, March 26 – Delta Drifters Easter Egg Hunt On Saturday, March 13, area children and their parents are invited to spend a day at Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site celebrating spring with a Nineteenth-Century Easter Egg Hunt on the grounds of the plantation. Interpretive Ranger Sasha Traña will greet participants and lead the Easter Egg Hunt, which will begin promptly at 1 pm, with participants meeting in the carriage court in front of the plantation Main House. Prizes will be awarded to the children finding the special “Rosedown” Easter Eggs. Following the Hunt, nineteenth-century games will be featured. Participating...
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BUTLER GREENWOOD PLANTATION ONE OF FEATURES ON ANNUAL AUDUBON PILGRIMAGE IN ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA
By Anne Butler
 Samuel Flower was one of the earliest English settlers in the St. Francisville area, a Quaker physician who emigrated from Pennsylvania in the 1770’s when the area was British territory; later, when Spain gained control, he treated Governor Manuel Gayoso. When Dr. Flower died in 1813, his eight heirs would divide thousands of arpents of land in the Felicianas, Rapides Parish, along Bayou Manchac, and in the Mississippi Territory. The family residence bordering Bayou Sara, appraised in the estate division at $12,300, was left to Dr. Flower’s 20-year-old |
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LIVING HISTORY REALLY LIVES AT OAKLEY PLANTATION NEAR ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA
by Anne Butler
 Many restored historic sites glibly promise to make history come alive for visitors, but that feat is easier said than done. One property that does indeed fulfill its promise, with both style and accuracy, is Oakley Plantation in the Audubon State Historic Site just south of St. Francisville, LA. That it can do so, and do it so well, is a testament to the stubborn endurance of the site itself as well as to the present-day stewards’ acute awareness of history.
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MURDER MOST FOUL IN ST. FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA
by Anne Butler
 Mayhem, mystery, murder---what is it about misfortune we find so intriguing? Whatever it is, Louisiana’s historic plantations, with morning mists swirling through the live oaks and breezes stirring the Spanish moss, provide the perfect setting for such scenarios. Think of River Road’s Ormond Plantation whose 1790s owner was summoned from the dinner table by a caller dressed as a Spanish official, never to be seen again, and whose subsequent owner was hung from an oak on the front lawn. And among the six historic plantations open for daily tours in St. Francisville, there is The Myrtles, which capitalizes wonderfully on its own woeful past. |
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