CATALPA PLANTATION

This plantation is not a museum, and that's what makes its charm. The owner, Mrs. Thompson, still lives in the house, his father's legacy, amid memories of another century. It will explain to you that furniture, crockery and trinkets come mostly from France (chandelier of baccarat, porcelain to Napoleon's colours or painted by Audubon…). During the war of Secession everything was hidden in the lake at the bottom of the garden. The idea was all the more excellent since the house was almost completely destroyed. On the piano Pleyel still leaves music scores from Jenny Lind, so often played that the piano touches are all worn. Don't deny the glass of sherry that Mrs. Thompson offers you, her pleasure is to tell (unfortunately English only) the life of his home (and his). Her mother lived in Rosedown, her grandparents to Oakley and her father in Catalpa. In the end, you will really feel like having made a journey over time.