Winter Quarters State Historic Site

Winter Quarters in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, United States, is a surviving example of an antebellum cotton plantation.

The main plantation house began as a hunting lodge in 1805 built by Job Routh, grandfather of Julia Augusta (Williams) Nutt, but was soon enlarged and became a residence.

He subsequently assumed the management of the 1,000-acre Panda Plantation near the parish seat of government in St.

Their daughter, Barbara Sue Doyle Hage (1949-2016), was the 1962 March of Dimes poster child and at the time of her death at the age of sixty-six the oldest known survivor of spina bifida.

Barbara Hage graduated in 1969 from Newellton High School and worked for a quarter century for the Louisiana State University Extension Service in St. Joseph.

Plantations in the vicinity of Lake St. Joseph circa 1866 including Hard Times and Winter Quarters