Small house built by the State of Louisiana for the Daughters of Charity at the LA Leper Home. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collections. Carville, LA.
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This small 12' x 12' structure was built directly behind Indian Camp Plantation sometime after 1906. Over the years it has functioned as an arts and crafts house, a greenhouse, and later a catechism classroom for staff children of federal employees of the National Leprosarium.
Today it is the Welcome Center for the Carville Historic District.
This file appears in: Indian Camp Plantation / Louisiana Leper Home
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…