Eldred's Bend Traditional Cache

This was the original location of Ezra Bennett’s store. Bennett, a New York native, purchased the store around 1836 and ran it through 1857. The store itself was burned during the Civil War and was rebuilt following the war. The store and the Bennett house have been relocated on Inglewood Plantation property.

The land across from the store was owned by Randal Eldred, hence the name of the curve in Bayou Boeuf. Mr. Bennett arrived here to be a school teacher but after marrying Eldred’s daughter he purchased a 200 acre plantation eventually owned m860 acres where he grew cotton and later sugar cane. In 1848 he built a sugar mill.

 Although not mentioned in the book “Twelve Years a Slave” this would have been the store frequented by everyone in the area. The store itself was in continuous operation from at least 1817 until the late 1960s.