Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation is a Greek Revival plantation in Darrow, Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Built in 1841, and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It has appeared on screen in The Beguiled (1971).
Location: Darrow, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States
Verified facts
- Architectural style: Greek Revival
confidence 75/100 · 4 independent sources · SRC-1430, SRC-1431, SRC-3355, SRC-4084 - Built in 1841
confidence 80/100 · 5 independent sources · SRC-1430, SRC-1432, SRC-3356, SRC-6192, SRC-6193 - Historic designation: National Register of Historic Places
confidence 75/100 · 4 independent sources · SRC-1430, SRC-1431, SRC-3355, SRC-4084 - Appeared in The Beguiled (movie, 1971)
confidence 75/100 · 4 independent sources · SRC-1430, SRC-1433, SRC-3355, SRC-4085
Evidence & sources
- SRC-1430 — Wikipedia — Ashland Plantation (Tier 3, encyclopedia; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-1431 — 64 Parishes (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities) — Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation (Tier 2, institutional; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-1432 — The Southern Archivist — Ashland Belle-Helene Plantation (Tier 3, established_blog; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-1433 — The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations — The Beguiled (1971) (Tier 2, journalism; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-3355 — NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune — On the Louisiana set of Clint Eastwood's 1971 original 'Beguiled' (Mike Scott) (Tier 2, journalism; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-3356 — U.S. National Park Service — National Register of Historic Places Inventory–Nomination Form, Ashland (Belle Helene) (Tier 1, official_archive; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-4084 — archive.org (Tier 2, journalism; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-4085 — archive.org (Tier 2, journalism; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-6192 — Historic-Structures.com — Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation, Geismar Louisiana (Tier 3, architectural history reference; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-6193 — The Advocate — Shell seeks removal of Ashland Plantation historic overlay (Tier 2, newspaper; retrieved June 2026)
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