Cottage Plantation House was destroyed by fire in 1960. The ruins remain on River Road, about 6 miles south of Baton Rouge. It was home for the Conrad family. The family’s glory days ended during the Civil War. Mr. Holt was the Conrad family children’s tutor and Mr. Conrad’s personal secretary. Holt’s ghost began to haunt the mansion after his death in 1880, along with a gaggle of other specters.
Cottage Plantation House: Haunted History
Colonel Abner Duncan built the Cottage plantation house in 1824 as a wedding gift for his daughter and her husband, Frederick Daniel Conrad. It had twenty-two rooms and was considered one of the grandest homes in the Baton Rouge vicinity. Visitors included eminent people: the Marquis de Lafayette, Jefferson Davis, Zachary Taylor and Henry Clay. The Conrad family traced its ancestry to George and Martha Washington. In the years before the Civil War, life was splendid at the Cottage. The family accumulated vast wealth and collected jewelry.
In the 1850's, Mr. Angus Holt, a traveling teacher, became the private tutor for the Conrad children and Frederick's personal secretary. He became a part of the family and lived there contentedly until the Civil War came to the house.
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