Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site, Historic plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States.
Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site lies in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, about 12 km from New Roads, on land rising roughly 40 metres above sea level. The site covers a historic house and its surrounding formal gardens, set among wooded, gently rolling terrain in a subtropical climate with warm, humid summers.
Rosedown Plantation was established in 1835 by Daniel and Martha Turnbull in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The main house and its formal gardens were laid out by the Turnbulls, and the property later became a state historic site. It lies about 12 km from New Roads, on land that rises roughly 40 metres above sea level.
The site is named for the roses Daniel and Martha Turnbull planted; Martha kept a garden diary from 1836 that records plantings and daily work, and the restored gardens follow her notes. Visitors can see the 1835 main house and its original family furnishings.
The site lies about 12 km southwest of New Roads in West Feliciana Parish, on gently rolling ground rising to roughly 40 metres above sea level. The surrounding countryside is wooded and thinly populated, so a car is the practical way to reach it.
The site lies about 12 km southwest of New Roads and 40 m above sea level, on gently rolling terrain that rises to roughly 53 m within a kilometre. The surrounding landscape is mixed forest and woodland, in a humid subtropical climate averaging 18 °C, with June the warmest month at about 24 °C.
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