Built around 1834 on the west bank of the Mississippi, this house became the most reproduced plantation image in America without most people knowing they were looking at a real place. Since the 1930s, it has appeared on every bottle of Southern Comfort — a visual shorthand for the antebellum South, poured in bars from Bangkok to Berlin, recognized by millions who never learned it had an address.
The house stands in West Pointe à la Hache, approximately 45 miles south of New Orleans, in a part of Plaquemines Parish where survival is the story. Most antebellum plantation houses in lower Plaquemines were destroyed by hurricanes or demolished during the oil boom, when land became worth more empty than occupied. Woodland is one of the few that remain.
It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It now operates as a bed-and-breakfast with river views. You can sleep inside the image you've seen a thousand times without realizing you were looking at somewhere specific — a house that outlasted the storms and the wrecking crews both, still standing where the Mississippi bends.
- ·The image on the Southern Comfort liquor bottle since the 1930s — one of the most recognized plantation house images in America.
- ·Built c. 1834 on the west bank of the Mississippi in West Pointe à la Hache.
- ·Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- ·One of the few surviving antebellum plantation houses in lower Plaquemines — most were destroyed by hurricanes or demolished during the oil boom.
- ·Now operates as a bed-and-breakfast with river views.
- ·Located approximately 45 miles south of New Orleans on the west bank.
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