Natchitoches, Louisiana

==In popular culture==
Multiple movies have been filmed here, including:
* ''[[The Horse Soldiers]]'' (1959), starring [[William Holden]] and [[John Wayne]]. 
* ''[[Cane River (film)|Cane River]]'' (1982), Horace B. Jenkins filmed Cane River in [[New Orleans]] and [[Natchitoches Parish]].
* ''[[Steel Magnolias]]'' (1989), starring [[Julia Roberts]], [[Sally Field]], [[Daryl Hannah]], [[Shirley MacLaine]], [[Dolly Parton]], and [[Olympia Dukakis]]
* ''[[The Man in the Moon (1991 film)|The Man in the Moon]]'' (1991), starring [[Reese Witherspoon]], [[Jason London]], [[Sam Waterston]], and [[Tess Harper]]
* ''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]'' (2013), four historic [[Antebellum architecture|antebellum]] plantations were used in the film: [[Felicity Plantation|Felicity]], [[Magnolia Plantation (Derry, Louisiana)|Magnolia]], [[Bocage Plantation|Bocage]], and [[Destrehan Plantation|Destrehan]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Scott|first=Mike|title=Following in the real footsteps of '12 Years a Slave' figure Solomon Northup: Mike's Movie Mailbag| url=http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2013/09/following_in_the_real-life_foo.html| work=[[The Times-Picayune]]|publisher=[[Advance Publications]]|access-date=October 25, 2013|date=September 9, 2013}}</ref> Magnolia, a plantation in Natchitoches, Louisiana, is just a few miles from one of the historic sites where Northup was held. "To know that we were right there in the place where these things occurred was so powerful and emotional," said actor Chiwetel Ejiofor. "That feeling of dancing with ghosts—it's palpable."<ref name="NYDN">{{cite web|last=Sacks|first=Ethan|title=No ordinary movie, '12 Years a Slave' is a brutal and honest depiction of America's gravest mistake|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/slavery-scars-article-1.1483980|work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|location=New York|publisher=Daily News, L.P.|access-date=October 27, 2013|date=October 13, 2013}}</ref>