Fontainbleau State Park

Copied from a sign in the park:
        Fontainbleau Plantation Sugar Mill

    These ruins are all that remain of Fontainebleu Plantation, once the summer home and plantation of Benard de Marigny. Born in 1785 to a family closely tied to the earliest colonial efforts in Louisiana. Marigny accumulated and lost a fortune in his lifetime. The grounds that make up Fontainebleau State Park are just a part of the vast land holdings he acquired on the north shore of Late Pontchartrain. He operated Fontainebleu Plantation, brick kilns and a sugar mill between1828 and 1852. Although his major residence was in New Orleans, he chose to spend much of this time at his summer residence, cooled by the breezes of the lake and free to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. During his ownership of the plantation he participated inthe early development of sugar cane and the refinement of sugar. The nearby town of Mandeville was owned and developed by Marigny as part of his extensive real estate interests. An unsuccessful candidate for governor three times, he remained active in politics until his death in 1868.

Fontainebleau State Park

Exiting Mandeville, the park is just southeast, down US 190. You leave the busy thoroughfare and enter the past. Louisiana Transitions, again. The stress of the regular world leaves you as you glide beneath the canopy of oaks.

A lone Egret surveys the lagoon near the beach.

Stereo Vision??** is back. Picture me standing in the middle of the pictures below, no don't do that.
The scene to the left was to my left. The scene to the right, I really like lone trees, was to my right.

I left the beach to check out the camping area. There are many. RV, primitive, TeePees, Group Cabins of all sizes and I think some single cabins. Anyway I found the lake again at the end of 1089, (see map above).

Stereo Vision** again.

The simple cottage below with its age depicting 4 shuttered windows, is a private residence on the campground road. It is no doubt old. I could live here.

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