​Belle  Terre   An 1800S Estate

 

H I S T O R Y

 

Your new home . . . a century and a half in the making.

 

If walls could talk, this home would share a century’s worth of stories. Known locally

as the L.O. Wright home, the house once stood north of Canton on the west side of

Highway 51, just shy of Highway 16. County records dated 1870 prove that much of

the home’s storied history to be true. From that point forward, the home’s past is

shrouded in conflicting myths and legends. Some accounts hold that the house was

dismantled and moved from Vidalia, Louisiana, by train, then re-assembled by a

gentleman who later opened a lumber company in Canton. It's also been speculated

that this grand old home was actually the second floor of an even grander old home

that had been dismantled. All versions were disputed by Mr. Wright, who grew up

in the house and later inherited it, and claimed he had deeds indicating construction

on site between 1835-1840. The structure certainly stood somewhere before the end of

the Civil War, thus earning the home the prized designation of antebellum.

 

Relocated to its current site in 1990, lovingly restored, and renamed for the beautiful

land upon which it resides, Belle Terre is now writing its own history. And yet, the

mysteries of a storied past remain, waiting to be unraveled by its next owner . . .