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He was born 83 years after his grandfather left the White House, and more than 60 years after his grandfather’s death.
A cursed doll rumored to have gone missing while touring the US with a traveling exhibit is being blamed for local disasters ...
The recent fire at Nottoway Plantation, which reduced the “big house” to ashes, serves as a stark reminder of the ...
Over on the west bank of the Mississippi atop a sugarcane field sat this southern mansion. The hard work of enslaved peoples ...
Nearly a dozen fire departments responded to extinguish the flames engulfing the pre-Civil War Nottoway Plantation House in ...
Between ten and eleven on December 14, Washington died in his bedchamber with Martha at the foot of his bed. His last words ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses where scores of enslaved Africans labored, has sparked joy and anger onl ...
Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big house.” It was also a place that tour guides infamously sold a romanticized and sanitized version of ...
Flames ripped through a massive mansion in Louisiana, destroying much of the historic structure that was used as a plantation house when it was completed in 1859, authorities said. The fire that ...
The massive inferno erupted at Louisiana's historic Nottoway Plantation House shortly after 2pm Thursday. A giant orange wall of fire consumed the 166-year-old home, which was located along the ...