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Crescent Plantation is located on Walnut Bayou, Madison Parish, Tallulah, Louisiana. It was originally built in 1832 but a main section was constructed in 1855.〔(Crescent Plantation marker )- Retrieved 2014-11-27〕 The plantation was the home of doctor D.M. and Elizabeth DeMoss Dancy from 1855 until after the Civil War. The plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1984. ==History== A sawmill was erected and cypress was cut from the land and the main plantation house was built on the banks of the Walnut Bayou by Dancy slaves. Houston, Texas businessman Gus Worham, that founded American General Corporation,〔Jason M. Olson, "American General Corporation," Handbook of Texas Online (), accessed November 28, 2014. Uploaded on June 9, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.〕 went into real estate business with Sterling C. Evans, that had a long involvement with Texas A & M University. The two bought and sold distressed ranch properties and plantations in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. Among these were the Little Eva Plantation in Chopin, Louisiana (near Natchitoches, Louisiana), where they raised (and exported to Russia) Santa Gertrudis cattle and hybrid pecans. They also acquired Randle Lake Plantation in Milam County, Texas, Bear Lake Plantation in Tallulah, Nine Bar Ranch in Cypress, Texas, and the U Bar Ranches in Medina County, Texas and Hidalgo County, New Mexico, as well as the Crescent Plantation.〔(Worham and Evans business ventures )- Retrieved 2014-11-28〕 Evans set his daughter Diana's husband up in a real estate development in Charlotte, North Carolina, and went into the grain elevator business with Lyndall's husband in Tallulah, and sold him Crescent Plantation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crescent Plantation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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