Kansas Plantation is sold

I’m beginning to learn roughly where these plantations in eastern Monroe were (again…roughly).

I found a front-page article in the News-Star June 22, 1920 headlined, “Plans for Transfer of “Kansas” Plantation Is Sold For $86,000: 436 Acres To Be Orphanage Site”.

Basically, John P. Parker, Sr. sold the plantation to the Baptist Church as the new site for the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home. It had (according to the article) “…one of the finest [pecan groves] in the South.” Those pecan trees are still there!