Delhi Historical Society

Deerfield Plantation

 

In 1845, Deerfield Plantation was an established plantation prior to the sale of the house and three sections of land on either side of the Bayou Macon. Deerfield Plantation was sold by William T. Oliver to Mildred Curry who made it a wedding gift to her grandson William Cockerham Purvis and his new bride, Harriet S. King of Richmond, Louisiana.  The couple were married at Richmond, Louisiana on October 30, 1845 and honeymooned in New Orleans.   The newly wed couple then settled down at Deerfield Plantation to begin a life of a planter and homemaker.  Deerfield was at the head of navigation on Bayou Macon where boats from New Orleans and other points docked and unloaded their cargo.  Bayou Macon was named for French riverboat gambler Samuelle Macon, who requented boats on the Louisiana Rivers.  Travel then was by riverboat and stagecoach.  Stages for the East crossed Bayou Macon at the Deerfield Crossing and proceeded west to the Carpenter House, near present Dunn, using the Coach Road.  This road was later known as Purvis Lane and is now Wilkes Street in Delhi.   The first post office in the area was in the commissary at Deerfield Plantation.  At this time the Plantation was a part of Carroll Parish, Louisiana.  

 

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