Throughout the years men from elsewhere have come to West Feliciana. Their reasons for coming were as varied as the houses they built; homes that can be seen as monuments to the lives they made for themselves here.
The cluster of notable 19th-century gardens in West Feliciana are outstanding examples of what unlimited time, wealth, labor, and horticultural knowledge, combined with the rich loess soil and a happy climate, could produce in antebellum culture. These gardens remain monuments to past glories and to the hardiness of plantings.
Select antiques dealers will be housed in three locations in the historic district: Feliciana Masonic Lodge on Proserity, Market Hall on Royal Street, and Jackson Hall on Ferdinand Street.
Daytime Revel on Royal Street, night social, Light up the Night.
To visit the Rural Homestead is to experience the lifestyle of rural Southerners. Native materials, hand-hewn cypress shingles and ancient timbers present a faithful recreation of what “home” meant to the plain folk of the Nineteenth century South.
Throughout the Pilgrimage, local volunteers demonstrate the homely skills they learned first-hand growing up in rural West Feliciana: open hearth and wood stove cookery, basket weaving, quilting, cotton carding and spinning. The grist mill grinds out cornmeal, shingles are rived, ground is broken by mule and plow, all to the sound of home-grown musicmakers – a happy “frolic” from an earlier day.
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