The plantation's historical commodity crop was sugarcane, cultivated by enslaved African Americans until emancipation.

Of great significance are the 22 slave quarters, arranged in a double row along an allée of oak trees.

Among the outbuildings are a garconnière, where young bachelors of the family or male guests could stay; a pigeonnier for keeping pigeons (a sign of status among the planters); an overseer's cottage; and late 19th-century barns.

Because of its quality and significance, the plantation was included among the first 26 featured sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

Heiress and businesswoman, Matilda Geddings Gray (1885–1971)[5] sponsored the restoration project in the 1940s, and it is now a U.S. National Historic Landmark.