Indian Camp Plantation, 1894 Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.

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Indian Camp Plantation, 1894<br />
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Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.

When the first patients arrived in 1894, Indian Camp Plantation was falling apart and uninhabitable.

In 1896, when the first Daughters of Charity arrived to begin their mission of nursing patients, a slow renovation process of the manor began.

When the federal government took over the buildings and grounds in 1921, Indian Camp was renovated and became the permanent administrative offices for the US Public Health Service.

Today, Indian Camp is the administrative HQ for the Louisiana Military Department.

This file appears in: Indian Camp Plantation / Louisiana Leper Home

Indian Camp Plantation / Louisiana Leper Home

By Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Carville, LA

In the 1700s, Europeans settled this area known as Indian Camp and developed a plantation economy along the Mississippi River. Robert Camp, a planter from Virginia, began purchasing land here in the 1820s. He farmed sugarcane and owned about 100…