Overview

Location

Approximate Location: Ward 2, Township 19 North, Range 13 East, Section 16, 46, (East) Carroll Parish, LA.

Date Constructed/ Founded

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Associated Surnames

Carson

Historical notes

The Airlie Plantation was owned and operated by James Green Carson, who moved across the Mississippi River from Canebrake Plantation (there was also a Canebrake Plantation, Concordia Parish, in fact there were four Canebrake Plantations) in Adams County, Mississippi, around 1846 with his wife Catherine Waller Carson and family. The Carsons fled to Texas during the Civil War, and James Green Carson died of diphtheria in Tyler, Texas.

Census: Appeared on the 1850 Slave Schedules (117 Slaves, listed as JG Carson) and 1860 Slave Schedules (170 slaves, listed as James G. Carson).

Associated Slave Workplaces

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Associated Free Persons

Dr. James Green Carson

Associated Enslaved Persons

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Research Leads and Plantation Records

Scope and Contents: Records include land deeds (1846 and 1868); daily record book (1862) including daily events, record of cotton picked, lists of livestock and expenses; genealogical correspondence (1951); and a map of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, with location of Airlie Plantation (ca. 1951). The record book was printed by Thomas Affleck of New Orleans. Microfilm available: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series G, University Publications of America, 44 North Market St., Frederick, MD 21701. This microfilm is available at the Center for American History, Microfilm 18,335 Series G, Part 1, Reel 11 http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00382/cah-00382.html

Miscellaneous Information

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References

A Place to Remember, East Carroll Parish 1832-1975 by Georgia Payne Durham Pinkston; East Carroll Parish Tax Assessors Roll 2006-2007 for legal land descriptions

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