Magnolia Plantation, Agricultural plantation in Natchitoches Parish, United States

Magnolia Plantation is a historic site in Natchitoches Parish featuring preserved brick structures including an overseer's house, eight worker cabins, a blacksmith shop, and a cotton gin barn along Cane River. These buildings represent different aspects of agricultural operations from earlier centuries.

Jean Baptiste LeComte II received French and Spanish land grants in the mid-18th century, but the plantation only began operating in 1830 under Ambrose LeComte. By 1860 Ambrose II held over 6,000 acres worked by 275 enslaved people housed in 70 cabins. After the Civil War the Hertzog family rebuilt the damaged house and buildings.

Locals called the plantation "the Hertzogs" for a century after the Civil War, when it served as the center of a community of Black Protestants and Catholic Creoles of color who lived and worked there. The eight surviving brick cabins housed enslaved families before becoming homes for sharecroppers.

Visitors can explore the outbuildings on their own during daily visits and walk around the grounds at their own pace. The main house is not open to the public because it remains a private residence.

The eight brick worker cabins reveal a long story of use, first housing enslaved families and later occupied by tenant farmers over many decades. This transition from one era to another is visible in the buildings themselves.