FORT ST. LEON PLANTATION Plaquemines Parish Louisiana
Taken from the Succession of Pierre VEILLON dated 1830 By:
Gladys Stovall Armstrong

Five (5) leaques (15 miles) below New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, 
right bank of Mississippi River, 26 arpents front, 40 arpents depth



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A dwelling bricked between post raised on brick pillars four feet 
from the ground, covered with shingles, with a front and back 
gallery and devided into parlors, a bed chamber, a dining room, 
a closet, a pantry, with an extension cellar on the ground floor, 
a wooden kitchen in two pieces and covered with pickets.
A small wooded house in the yard covered pickets composed of two 
rooms with a front and back gallery and a closet on the back gallery.

Two wooden pigeon houses covered with shingles and well supplied 
with pigeons,.

A wooden hospital covered with pickets, eaised four feet above the 
ground, composed of four apartments with front gallery, a cook house 
in the rear and a day kennel underneath.

A store house of wood raised four feet above ground covered with 
pickets with closed galleries on each side used as stables 

One fodder shed built of wood and covered with preaux. A large 
building of ninty feet long and eigh - eight feet wide containing 
a sugar house with all sugar equipment.

A purgery to receive 200 hogheads of sugar and a sugar mill
propelled by horses. The building is of timber covered with pickets.

Two sheds used for Negro quarters that will accommodate forty slaves.

A small wooded house for an overseer.

A bell with a steeple, a large kettle for cooking the vittles of 
slaves, set up near the sugar house.

There are two hundred and forty arpents planted in sugar.

There are thirty-five slaves.