Slave Quarters on Indian Camp Plantation. 1894, photograph. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.
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The few slave quarters still standing at Indian Camp Plantation in 1894 were in better repair than the plantation manor itself when the first patients arrived.
The first seven leprosy patients quarantined to the property took up residence in the quarters with the clothing and bedding donated by Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
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Indian Camp Plantation / Louisiana Leper Home
In the 1700s, Europeans settled this area known as Indian Camp and developed a plantation economy along the Mississippi River. Robert Camp, a planter from Virginia, began purchasing land here in the…