Today is a rest day, and it is definitely warmer as it reached 70 degrees today. Still cloudy, but warmth is a good thing. Bubba offered shuttles into the historic section of St. Francisville and I used one. St. Francisville is the second oldest incorporated town in Louisiana. I walked around town with PaPow (Chris) and we saw quite a few older homes that have been preserved; 146 structures are on the National Register Historic District. As we talked to a few people, and read some of the markers, it was discovered that many have been moved to their current locations. There were many different styles of architecture with a few included below. We also went to the location of Grandmother’s Buttons – an old bank converted to a gift/jewelry shop. It was a store I could have spent a great deal of time browsing, however, just as we walked up, two bus loads of tourists pulled up. I bought a few post cards and headed out. We ended the short trip with a stop at the Magnolia café. We each had one of their “world-famous” cookies and soft drink/tea. The six ladies played a couple of card games again - this time just for rocks. Queenie won both games! Tomorrow is 86 miles....
Market Hall built in 1819 and restored in 1984.
A United Methodist Church built in 1899 and includes a bell tower from an older church that was built in 1844.
This home called Virginia is a Greek Revival town house that began as a one-room store in 1817. It expanded in 1826 and then expanded again in 1855 to its current size.
This Romanesque Bank Building is now Grandmother's Buttons. It was built in 1905.
The vault inside Grandmother's Buttons holds displays of antique buttons.
One of the button displays inside the vault.
White's cottage is a 1903 urban adaptation of Upland Southern culture known as the dog-trot or pen and passage home. It was when two rooms, or "pens" divided by an open passage or "dog-trot."
The Robb House was built in 1895 by pharmacist F.M. Mumford as a gable-front commercial building with living quarters above.
Some of the cabins near where we had our tents set up. A wonderful setting for Girl Scouts to be sure.
