A lantern-lit brick carriage way at night with a pale figure standing at the far end

Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

The Other Side of Louisiana’s Oldest Town

Founded in 1714, Natchitoches has had three centuries to fill its burial grounds. Sixty of them are recorded here, along with the plantations, forts and river houses that keep turning up in other people’s stories.

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Table tombs and a single white mausoleum under heavy oaks in the American Cemetery

The cemeteries

Sixty burial grounds, one parish

Some sit behind a church on a numbered highway. Some are four stones in a soybean field with no road to them. All sixty are listed, mapped where coordinates exist, and written up with what it actually takes to visit.

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A brick quarters cabin at Magnolia Plantation seen through the branches of a live oak at dusk

The landmarks

Houses that never quite emptied

Cane River runs thirty-five miles through plantation country, and almost every bend of it has a building on the National Register and a story that does not appear on the plaque. Start with the six below.

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