Tally-Ho Plantation House, Greek Revival plantation house in Bayou Goula, Louisiana.
Tally-Ho Plantation House is a raised Acadian cottage with Greek Revival influences, now used as the overseer's home. The main house burned in 1945, and the current structure was moved back from the Mississippi River twice. A barn, office, and slave cabin remain down a side road.
Iberville Parish records show the Tally-Ho site belonged to Jean Fleming, a free man of color, sometime before 1835; several owners followed. John Dobbins Murrell, a slaveholder from Virginia, bought the sugar plantation in 1848, and it stayed in his family. The main house burned in 1945, and the present building served as the overseer's home.
The name Tally Ho comes from John Dobbins Murrell's fox-hunting background in Virginia. Down a side road, a barn, an office and a slave cabin still stand, the last a rare surviving trace of the enslaved people who worked the sugar plantation.
The house stands along River Road in Bayou Goula, set back from the Mississippi after being moved twice. The barn, office and a slave cabin lie down a side road from the main house, so allow time to walk to them. The property is private and not a staffed visitor site.
The river dock at this property once hosted showboats as performance venues, with The New Sensations performing there in 1878. This unexpected use reveals how the riverside location served purposes beyond agriculture and production.
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