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Felicity Plantation is a historic sugarcane plantation on the banks of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located along Louisiana Highway 18 in Vacherie, St. James Parish. Felicity is a sister plantation to St. Joseph Plantation,[1] and was built around 1846 (or 1850)[2] by Valcour Aime as a wedding gift to his daughter, Felicite Emma, and her spouse, Septime Fortier,[3] who was also her cousin.[4] Acquired by a bank in 1873,[4] the plantation was purchased by Saturnine Waguespack in 1890, who merged it with the St. Joseph Plantation to form the St. Joseph Plantation and Manufacturing Company.[3] The house still remains in the Waguespack family.[3]
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Architecture
The antebellum plantation house has elements of French Colonial and Anglo-American styles.[4] It is characterized by its wide hallways and high-ceilinged rooms, while featuring a carved cypress balustrade.[4] Several of the rooms contain red Italian marble mantlepieces.[3] Six wooden pillars are large in size and square in shape.[2] The house was damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has since been restored.
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Grounds
The grounds still contain an original barn and slave quarters houses.[4]
In film
Several films have used the plantation as a location, including The Skeleton Key (2005) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), along with Season One of the WGN television series, Underground.
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