Ingleside Plantation Civil War Specie — Ouachita Parish

Ingleside Plantation was the home of Judge J.N.T. Richardson; the house still stood near the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home when WPA surveyors documented it. Ouachita Parish History preserves the WPA narrative and circa-1910 Department of Agriculture photograph. Local ghost lore describes Judge Richardson haunting Ingleside, playing piano amid rattling chains — and a weeping woman waiting for a lover lost in the Civil War. Plantation-cache folklore often ties strongboxes to judges and merchants who hid specie when Federal columns threatened the Ouachita Valley. An Ingleside Plantation cemetery was uncovered in the 1980s when the Joyner family cleared land near the Baptist Children's Home. Coordinates approximate the Ingleside grounds northeast of downtown Monroe. Private property.