[2][3] Included in the Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Magnolia Plantation is also a destination on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

This plantation can be traced to Jean Baptiste LeComte II, who received French and Spanish land grants in the mid-18th century.

[5] After the American Civil War, these cabins were used by freedmen, black sharecroppers whose families lived and worked on the plantation for 100 more years.

But for 100 years after the war, "the Hertzogs," as the place was familiarly known, served as the center of a larger community of blacks and Creoles of color who also lived and worked on the plantation.

Sabin Gianelloni, Jr. purchased some part of Magnolia Plantation in August or September 1951 from Hertzog descendants and held it for a time.

The Park Service has acquired 16 buildings, including the plantation store, the cotton gin, the Overseer's House (or Slave Hospital); blacksmith shop and the brick quarters.

On December 29, 2022, the main house and surrounding grounds were added to the national historical park's authorized boundary.