Standing outside the Yucca House at Melrose Plantation, Betty Metoyer, a descendant of the Metoyers, portrays Marie Therese Coincoin. Built in 1796, Melrose Plantation in Natchitoches Parish in Northwestern Louisiana, shares the story of slave Marie Thérèse Coincoin and her ten Franco-African children with Thomas Pierre Metoyer, as well as the Isle Brevelle Creole community, the Civil War, plantation history, and Louisiana folk art. Learn more at: http://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/melrose-plantation/

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