The sugar cane mill is just like the one I grew up with as a child. My Grandfather was born in 1883 and my Grandmother in 1890 and they raised me. I am now 66 years old and I can tell you exactly how to use this cane mill. The U bolts at the top held the long pole that was hooked up to a horse and in my case it was granny the old mare. As Granny would walk in circles my Uncle would feed the cane stalks through the mill and the juice would collect in a bucket. It was us children who kept the buckets changed out and carried to our Granny and Aunt who stood at a huge cast iron kettle that was at least 5ft in diameter. The kettle was heated with oak wood and the cane would be cooked down to syrup and then we would bottle the syrup. From that we used it in many recipe's and my favorite was pulling homemade sugar cane taffy. My sisters and I would have our hands buttered with home made butter and when our Grandmother cooked the syrup down just right and cooled it she would have us girls pull the taffy out 6-8 feet and she would catch it in the middle with a big wooden spoon and raise it up high and we would come together and double it and continue pulling until it had just enough butter added and it was the perfect candy. Hope you enjoyed this little snippet of my life.

I'm 80yrs old and can not travel thank you . I also like the calm voice and how you go back and put in your corrections

Thank you for your service. I'm a Vet myself. I appreciate your sharing these places. There is room for paying respect to the past. Commenters who heckle and put it down don't have an understanding of the fact if not for the past we wouldn't be here. Everything had to start somewhere and it wasn't our choice. Ignorance is difficult to overcome,well for those who won't be taught. It rears it's ugly head here pretty often. We'll tolerate and let it go. Go with your feelings. It's okay!!

cool! man. that diorama is one of the smartest learning tools one could ever hope to see in a place such as Magnolia Mound! love it! another great vlog! thank you!

The big barrel next to the back of the overseer's home is a cistern. It stored water that ran off the roof for household use. Also, the beds look pretty comfy, even those of the slave quarters. The majority of people in China today sleep on plywood beds with very, very thin "matresses".

The garden area by the sugar press was most likely to grow the sugar cane,. The round stone with the square hole is a milling stone. Wheat or some grain. Thanks for the tour.

Another fantastic job showing the plantation. Keep em coming. I love looking at them.

A, of course they didn't use a chamber pot to wash in!!!!!! However, as a person descending from BOTH slave owners and slaves, I believe that these houses should be preserved. Because many times slaves actually built them!! Their knowledge and skill needs to be appreciated and preserved!!!!

Very Amazing & beautiful Old Plantation Home, Thanks For Sharing !!!

Very beautifully done! Truly enjoyed it

In the bedroom with the baby's cot and ceramic pre pot, the pot was only used as an overnight pre pot. To wash your face etc they had a large ceramic bowl usually beautifully designed and decorated, with a large matching jug. The servant or maid usually brought up the jug with warm water in the morning so the person or people could wash before getting dressed. Glad you had your phone to film through the windows, worked well! Another informative and lovely explore! 🦘😊😀

Absolutely loved seeing this video thanks for sharing !

Thank You for this delightful, well done series on old homes; so happy to have stumbled across it. The comments here are also a wonderful lagniappe in addition to the amazing architectural innovation!

Really enjoyed your video and the explanations for each part of the plantation. Thanks for a great job.

Beautifully presented! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

I like your voice. I love touring plantation homes. So interesting! Great job!

Thanks for showing the history!

I just found your channel. I live in Greenwood Louisiana right outside Shreveport. We have a lot of historic homes and I used to own one that is on the tour of homes. I just love history and I am enjoying your videos.

The outside of my house looks almost exactly like this. Built in the early 90’s but was from the Southern Living collection. I love my porches. I’ve bought another house that is 100 years old. All original cabinets, ceilings, floors, windows and 3 fireplaces. I love it.

Fabulous! Love love love

Continue to work hard. I believe your channel and personality will go far… new subscriber.

Thank you for the beautifiul tour.

this is so majestic to me I cant thank you enough for this video

Thank you for the footage.

Thank you for sharing!!

And a cistern held rain water that might have been used for washing clothes, cleaning, etc. but that water was not used for cooking or drinking. There would have been a water well where water for cooking and drinking would have come from. My paternal grandparents married in 1897, lived in southern Illinois. The house in which they lived had no indoor toilets, no running water, no doors on the closets as a room, no matter how small with a door was considered a taxable room. They had a deep water well in the backyard where water was pumped for cooking and drinking and their cistern was in the screened in back breezeway and that water was for bathing, cleaning, washing but not for consuming. My grandparents died in 1960 and 61 at ages 84 and 86… they never to my knowledge had running water or an indoor bathroom…barely had electricity. Their first child, my Aunt Delsie, was born in 1898… there were 3 daughters and 3 sons…my daddy was the youngest child and he was born 21 years into their marriage in 1918. I loved going to see my grandparents because their house WAS so very different from our house in Irving, Texas where I grew up. Life must have been very, very difficult for those living on this plantation but what a fascinating look back in time. We live in east Texas and have visited some of the major antibellum plantations in Louisiana. Our home in east Texas was built in 1912…it is a neat old house too…we bought it 34 years ago and are only the second owners. Thank you.

Fantastic .oh my I love this house .the porch is breathtaking.i love the porch.

I really enjoyed the video tour

I went to the Magnolia Mansion in South Carolina. So beautiful! All of the rooms were attached to each other. Hugh doors because of the intense heat and humidity. The cook house was outside in another out building due to the heat and possibility of a fire. He had 500 slaves he called his roses. They loved him and a lot stayed after the war. Sherman burned it done during the Civil War. It was rebuilt but not as grand. The great south had a lot of tradition and beauty. The slave issue was very sad. I believe it brought it down.

Thank you. It was lovely tour. We seen enough to know what it's all about. I wonder what they done with the whole Stables. You know the buggy and carriage and wagon houses to. It's a shame it's all been done away with. So thankful the house or there still. I thoroughly enjoyed it now the workers houses called slave houses. Was it on a grand scale. But according to what I've seen or some of these people come from and still live today that lived in Grass huts and slept on the ground. They cooked on the ground a little hole in the ground. So it was very up to date for them. According to where they came from. They work they ate like everybody else. We still have to work to eat today. It's sad to be in captivity. It's our history! And I'm glad I've got to see some of it.

Been there and I really enjoyed it.

Thanks for reading the historical signs for those that are sometimes just listening 👍

I throughly enjoyed this video. Thank you!

Aneth - Dill. The spice with a very light aniseed flavor and a favorite in the French kitchen.

Thank you! This was wonderful! Note that the overseers house must've been rebuilt seeing the CW ended in 1865 and it was built in 1870 after slaves were freed. The chamber pots went on the floor and there was a pitcher and wash basin on the table in the corner of the room (@ 41:27) Also that diorama is incredible! My guess would be the goofy fence kept horses or other large livestock from escaping without having to close a gate behind you.

you did a great job

Thanks! Enjoyable

Great voice for this type of videos.

I think the piece hanging from dinning room is a old Fan of sorts someone would have to work it back and forth

The wooden piece hanging above the table was called a punka (sp?) I believe. A rope went to the side and someone would sit or stand (generally a child I believe) and pull the rope to keep it cool. Love your tour. If you could go in and take the tour, then film a bit you could tell a bit more of the history and items? That would be wonderful for those of us who can not travel so easily any longer but still would love to "see the world". Thank you for the tour.

I really enjoyed watching your video. Thank you for sharing it. Pigeon is the french word for a dove. Pigeonnier is the "house" of the doves.

The diorama is wonderful!

Slavery happened. It is this country's history. As is what we did to the Indians. It is a truth and should be talked about.

The round stone withe square hole in the center is a old stone grinding wheel to grind corn, wheat, etc.

History is history is history!!

Wow this is awesome,be great to metal detect those grounds and give them the artifacts

The round concrete laying on the ground under the oak tree was a mill stone for grinding corn. That is only half the mill the other half would have sat on it and it would be turned by a wooden handle that would turn the stone and grind the corn to meal.

Hi. Great video! Historic homes and Plantations don't want filming of the interior because it discourages in person visits; which equals lost revenue. By the way I'm a new Subscriber and didn't catch your name? Keep up the great work 👍

I don't think they used the chamber pot to wash in !! A pitcher and bowl on a wash stand would have been used !! We need to know about plantation life and the horrors of slavery and not erraticate it from history !!

And the house still standing a wooden house what I don’t understand is my grand mother house falling apart built 1974 I don’t get it

The slave quarters (the duplex) was quite fancy. Most quarters were mere shacks which provided no protection from the elements. Slaves were expected to work nights, hence the spinning wheel and weaving loom. Meals were usually grits/cornmeal mush seasoned with smoked pig's feet (or any other part the owner didn't want) added for protein. Small plots were sometimes provided so the slaves could grow their own food (in their spare time). Dandelions and wild berries were also eaten.

No…a “chamber pot “ was ONLY used as a place to go to the bathroom at night or during bad weather…it was not used for washing. There was usually a large bowl and matching pitcher that was used for washing of the face, hands and body since there was no running water or a bathroom with a tub…and the bowl and pitcher was usually set on what was called a “dry sink”.

Aneth is a 5000 year old herb in the anetheum family. Closest relation to Dill weed

Hi, I just found your channel and subscribed! Interesting video, thanks for sharing. I thought the outhouse was kinda fancy with the seat covers and windows/blinds lol beautiful property but I'm always sad to see the slave quarters and to know it was their blood,sweat and tears that built it.....

He wasn't called the manager he was called the overseer

We can’t forget the history of slavery. I don’t think you are glorifying slavery. Showing the past and the contrasts from the plantation owners, overseers and the slaves is very important lest we forget. Those are some of the nicest slave quarters I’ve seen. Many I’ve seen were little more than sheds with no fireplaces, beds furniture etc. it was atrocious. And what you were looking at that you couldn’t think of the name was a loom.

Louisiana didn’t become part of the United States until 1803. So this was built before Louisiana was part of the US.

What you called “big old green onions” looked like leeks to me…a delicious variety of onions that grow in very Sandy soil and take a lot of washing. Pigeons were raised in a “pigeonier”…probably I am not spelling that correctly…sorry…but adult pigeons and baby pigeons, called squab, were a source of food and most plantations had them back in the day.

Porch is called veranda, (wrap around)

The round stone on the ground is a mill stone

Why did Overseers house have 2 front doors? I am loving your videos!!! I'm not able to travel anymore so this is my way to travel. I'm from the South but I've never been to these places!! Keep them coming!

It was fascinating. What upsets me is progress. When you see express ways through the land it’s heartbreaking. Where that ugly highway is I assume the sugar plantation was there and it probably went right down to the rivers edge. I can just imagine the slaves loading the sugar sacks onto the steamboat. I think that large barn like structure was the sugar processing factory. Some slaves where treated better on some plantations then others. I was surprised to see a large fireplace in the slaves quarters many slaves didn’t have a fireplace where they could keep warm and cook. Some where treated with such cruelty. It wasn’t just the black slaves that where forced to work these plantations, the mentally incompetent were used to work the plantations and farms too. It was an awful time for them as well. And nothing has changed for people with mental disability. They still get treated like outcasts in this day and age. Somethings never change. Their is still discrimination in people, they still carry it in their hearts and in their minds. We will never change these things however we must learn from our past. People all over the world still mistreat their employees and staff and over work them and under pay them today. We will never end slavery and as long as we have men and women in controlling powerful positions in our world money , greed and opulence is what rich people seek and as long as we have these hideous ugly traits you will never have unity between the haves and have nots. A lot more changes still need to be made in this world so we can all live as one in harmony with each other and share what we have in generosity and love. Love is the key. Why humans are so miserly and greedy and cruel to one another is something I can’t grasp because I have never been this way myself thanks to a life of abject poverty. I am thankful that I have always lived a life of poverty and cruelty because it has made me appreciate the simple pleasures in life such as clean running water and food if you can afford it and a tiny shelter over my head and a few items of clothing. It makes you rich in spirit and brings you closer to Jesus. Heaven is my treasure and I am very looking forward to my death. 😊

So cool! Do you have an Instagram page?

My pawpaw work the fields there in the early to mid 1900s

Auto correct kept spelling pee as pre! Sorry.🦘🥴

That was a horrible time, I hope we never go through that again. But they would not be here otherwise.

I have distant cousins that have a plantation in Mississippi with a separate slave cemetery.

I appreciate the work you've done to create this video! I live near Magnolia Mound, and I have visited it multiple times in the past two years. I'm sorry to say that compared to other plantations in Louisiana, they do a terrible job of incorporating the history of slavery into the story of the site. Public records show that hundreds of people were enslaved there over the years when it was operational, including at least one family that continued in peonage (debt servitude) for 30 years after the Civil War. That aspect of Magnolia Mound's history should be part of the story the curators tell. Why only focus narrowly on the history of just one of the families that owned it? Why not name and honor those who were enslaved there as well?

Built high up to prevent from flooding from the Mississippi.

Yes!! The Pots and Pans Were Cast Iron. No "Stick-Free" back in That Time.

My great great great grandaddy was name George Joyce and could have been on this plantation

I grew up with a privey

Ask yourself who owned the slave ships...

You are so handsome!! 🤭

Looks like the Foreman’s house.

Thank You for sharing.Hopefully this plantation took good care of their workers. Looks like they had what they needed , except freedom. Sad. Still a beautiful farm.

That memorial garden needs water badly.

If that old oak tree could talk.

As far as a kitchen they were slaves what made you think they wanted to be in there for real

Damn shame the 900 acres are no longer part of the property.

It's a sistern.

Great tour! In many of these plantations that do tours, the focus is on the family and how rich they were but rarely is it mentioned that the slaves were why they were rich and had the life they did. The story of the slaves needs to be told during these tours. If it wasn't for their blood, sweat, tears and lives these white plantation owners likely wouldn't have had as much as they did. It doesn't matter how good the slaves might have been treated because the fact of it all is that human beings were owned, imprisoned, denied the basics, suffered tremendously and worked to death. I gasped when you showed that cement thing in the ground by the slave cabin because I'm pretty sure that is where the whipping post was. They should have one there to tell the whole truth of life on a plantation. They should tell the whole story, the good, the bad and the very ugly. How many poor people were whipped to shreds on that post? It's awful.

One day the legacy of slavery won't be painful to recall, it was a time in American history. Blacks ain't mad.

The relevance of George Washington is moot. This land was governed under Spanish or French rule. The Florida Parishes bounced back and forth to English rule as well. The king of Spain returned Louisiana back to Napoleon in 1800.

Simply education that's it ok don't have a victim hood mentality like everyone else though just tell the history how it happened without emotion and feelings involved..... But everyone has been enslaved and i wouldn't really call it a mistake...😂

Those pots you called water pots beside the beds in the managers house are called chamber pots. It is usually used by the ladies of the house to pee in at night. I understand your intention is not to exploit the slavery but if you make money from this video are you not exploiting that culture?

yes it was unfortunate, and we didn't learn from any mistakes. we still think that we are the super people

Can't watch.. so nauseating.