P. Phanor Prud’homme General Mercantile and later convenience store.
Pierre Phanor Prud’homme, born and raised on the Oakland Plantation in Natchitoches Parish along the Cane River, was one of the second generation Prud’homme family of Natchitoches parish planters. His father, Jean Pierre Emmanuel, obtained a land grant from the Spanish government in 1789. The Oakland Plantation quickly grew and eventually turned into a small village.
Today, 27 historic buildings still stand on the Creole plantation property. Besides the main house, scattered around are slave quarters, a carpenter shop, doctors cottage and the plantation store, pictured here. This retro convenience store offered newly freed slaves and sharecroppers general merchandise, gasoline and also doubled as the post office for almost 100 years.
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