Madewood Plantation
Madewood Plantation is located in Napoleonville, Louisiana. This 1840s plantation has a surprise located behind the manor house, featuring a graveyard which contains the corpse of Colonel Thomas Pugh, who was the first owner of the estate, and his family. Colonel Hugh hired architect Henry Howard to build the manor house besides his enormous sugar plantation between 1840 and 1848. Following the Civil War, as did almost every plantation in the area, the plantation fell apart due to the hard economic times. The Harold Marshall family eventually purchased the plantation in 1964.
To this day, the family owns and operates the plantation and has turned it into a tourist attraction, giving tours and having rooms available for overnight stays. The cast-iron fence at the front of the cemetery is very eery and creaks on its own. A male apparition has been reported seen standing by the fence in addition to this. Psychics believe this male presence was a slave who was to maintain the grounds. He serves almost as a guard for the souls in the cemetery, acting as a liaison to those spirits and the living who come to the site to visit on any given day.
(Source: Dwyer, Jeff. Ghost Hunter’s Guide to New Orleans. 2007.)
