Stop #5 (Avoyelles) Edwin Epps plantation site (home removed)

(pg. 25) Edwin Epps Plantation - The land immediately before you after you cross the bridge is the EPPS PLANTATION. This is the place where the Avoyelles Sheriff with Henry B. Northup came to locate Platt, the kidnapped Solomon Northup.
Edwin Epps' House on which Solomon worked in 1852 stood at the point now marked by the tree that stood in the Epps' front yard. The house itself was moved to Bunkie in 1976 for restoration as a museum.