Bonnet Carre Historical Center (formerly known as the 1811 Kid Ory Historical House)

To create platforms to activate the collective ownership of the historical narrative of the formerly enslaved, their descendants, and community; to educate and engage patrons in research-based studies of the 1811 Slave Uprising; serve as a museum and research campus that allows for the accumulating and disseminating knowledge and our focus on the less well-known voices; and be a central community campus for archival, preservation, and archaeological research for all ages and skillset.

ALLOCATION OF DONATED FUNDS

* Digitization of historic conveyance, probate, and vital records as they relate to the enslaved and their descendants

* General operating support assistance

* Stipends for student interns, onsite volunteers, honorariums for guest speakers, music clinicians, teacher conferences, lunch and learn sessions

* Wages for staff and visiting faculty in residence

* Professional development opportunities for staff and board members

* Conservation for acquired genealogical research records, oral history collection, museum-owned artifacts/objects/features, and physical structure of the museum

OUR DEDICATION:

The Bonnet Carre Historical Center Organization (also referred to as the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House) consists of dedicated of historians, genealogists, preservationists, musicians, archaeologists, descendants, and collectors. We have joined this Board to preserve our region's history and culture, especially the Woodland plantation where we are currently based out of the present day Bonnet Carre Historical Center, also known as Kid Ory House. Woodland Plantation, where the largest slave revolt in United States history began in 1811, also serves as the birthplace of one of the earliest and most significant Jazz impresarios such as Kid Ory, born in a sharecropper's lodging on the plantation seventy years after the infamous revolt. While those two events are what the museum is mainly known for, our work encompasses research on the cultural legacy of all persons and events associated with the site and the surrounding area from 1793 through the 1970s.

What was once known as the Andry Plantation (later the Woodland Plantation), the current Bonnet Carre Historical Center (dba the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House and Museum) provides an ideal setting for monumental community impact, reconciliation, and educational research opportunities. Our site is a bucolic campus that features the original raised Creole cottage home and is one of the oldest remaining structures in Louisiana and includes a modest garconniere and several outbuildings nestled on five acres. The Bonnet Carre Historical Center carries the aura of colonial Louisiana while also boasting recent additions dating back to the 1800s. With this connection to the cultural and historical past, we intend to amplify that experience on our campus as a museum, cultural center, and hub for research and preservation.