September 29, 2007

The grand opening of the museum and educational center at the Lakeport Plantation house was held. The house, built around 1858 by Lycurgus Leonidas Johnson, was deemed at the time the showplace of the state’s “cotton aristocracy.” The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and is Arkansas’s grandest example of Greek Revival architecture. It was deeded to Arkansas State University by the last owner and was part of the school’s Delta Heritage Initiative program, which sponsored extensive renovation.