Carville Driving Tour, Story Site #1

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This file appears in: Indian Camp Plantation / Louisiana Leper Home

Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator of the National Hansen's Disease Programs Museum, created this tour for visitors to the Carville facility.

This file appears in: Indian Camp Plantation / Louisiana Leper Home

Indian Camp Plantation / Louisiana Leper Home

By Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Carville, LA

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…