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113 Ramsey Plantation is located on the bank of False River in Pointe Coupée Parish. The present house was built about 1840, incorporating an earlier structure about which little is known. Indeed, the history of the plantation and details of the building campaigns are obscure. Tebbs’s photographs document a raised Creole house with a few neoclassical details. Lt. Allan Ramsey Wurtele (b. ca. 1893), who developed a machine harvester for sugarcane processing, purchased the 5,000-acre property in 1928. Wurtele also attempted to make artificial rubber from sugar. The house is made of brick on the first floor, is framed on the second, and features a raised basement and spiral staircase in the hallway. Wurtele granted the Josephite Fathers permission to use a building on the property as St. Catherine’s Chapel in 1938. His daughter, Joanna Wurtele, owned the plantation as late as 2004. At present , Ramsey serves as a private residence. RAMSEY PLANTATION ca. 1840 Ramsey Plantation (front elevation), gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.213 114 Bagatelle Plantation (front elevation), vintage gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.261b ...

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