SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

Trio Plantation

Location: Richland Pa., LA
Constructed: 1832

History: Trio Plantation has been owned by seven generations of the Jordan family (pronounced "Jurdon") who migrated from Tennessee, to Mississippi to pre-Richland Parish Louisiana near today's Rayville, Louisiana.

Associated Surnames: Jordan

Associated Free White Names

• Jordan Family: owners

Associated Black Slave Names

Surnames of Slaves on Trio Plantation
Contributed by Jackie Tarleton

• Jordan
• Ragsdale / Ragsdell / Ragsdil

Agriculture

• Cotton

Description of Associated Architecture

• Large Family Farmhouse

Others Researching This Plantation

• Jackie Tarleton, [email protected]

RESOURCES

• Trio Plantation was originally submitted by Jackie Tarleton. Thank you!!!
• The National Register of Historic Places
• Tarleton, Jackie. Interview with Miss Jordan, hieress of Trio Plantation. Spring 2003.