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In the mid-1700s, Jean Baptiste LeComte II got land grants from the Spanish and French. Structures began to be built the 1800s. Be that as it may it wasn't until 1830 Magnolia Plantation saw its first occupants. Jean's child, Ambrose, and his wife, Julia Buard, transformed the property into a cotton plantation. Utilizing slave work, they changed over 2,000 sections of land into vast cotton fields. Their profits allowed them to extend to three plantations, utilizing Magnolia Plantation as their home base. The greater part of Magnolia's structures, which incorporate a metal forger shop, a ranch store, a previous slave doctor's facility, eight block lodges and a gin stable are dated back to between 1835 to 1850. The slave doctor's facility housed the owners after the primary house was burned by Union officers amid the Civil War in 1897. The house that stands today is a replication of the first house.

Magnolia remained a prominent cotton-producing plantation for over a century. It was viewed as spectacular as a result of the cultivating innovations, for example, the cotton picking tractors and cotton gins and a 11 by 30-foot wooden screw cotton press. Ambroise and Julia's little girl Ursula and her husband Matthew
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Neighbors say they sometimes hear the killed owner's shouts and feel his presence. Blacksmiths would fuse voodoo images on the crosses that marked LeComte graves. The slaves frequently used voodoo curses on their harsh owners. In the main house, there is a room known as "The Dying Room". It is said that a significant number of Magnolia's occupants went to this space to be killed. This room additionally housed a Union Major, who was gradually harmed and headed to frenzy by his Confederate soldiers. Visitors have reported seeing a man's deformed face show up in the window and during full moons, the kitchen door opens and foggy things creep around staring them in the face and crawling on their hands and

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