Historic Nottoway Plantation destroyed by fire: largest antebellum mansion in the south a total loss

WHITE CASTLE - Officials in Iberville Parish are calling the main building of Nottoway Plantation a total loss, that is after a major fire started Thursday afternoon.A historic landmark, reduced to rubble. Fire crews, still fighting hotspots in the structure of Nottoway plantation more than 24 hours after a fire destroyed it. "There were layers of wood on top of each other so they couldn't access the attic in the main structure and once it was there it was hard to stop," Parish Preside