About Venue
The Carter Plantation is an historic plantation house located on Louisiana highway 1038, southwest of Springfield in what is now Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States.The property was purchased by Thomas Freeman in 1817, from James Rheem, who acquired it from a Spanish land grant in 1804. Freeman, a free person of color, was the first African American to own property in the Greensburg District (St. Helena Parish), the southern portion of which became Livingston Parish.The home was completed in 1820, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on February 23, 1979.Early historyThe land of the plantation was originally part of West Florida, which from 1763 to 1810 was under British and then Spanish control.Livingston Parish was created February 10, 1832, when St. Helena Parish was divided. There is some controversy as to whether the Parish was named after Edward Livingston or Robert R. Livingston, although the name is generally attributed to Edward.
