The Iberville Parish Government confirmed the blaze in a statement online which reads in part, "The loss of Nottoway is not just a loss for Iberville Parish, but for the entire st

An investigation is underway after fire crews in Iberville Parish responded to a fire at a historic plantation in White Castle Thursday afternoon. According to the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office, the main house of the Nottoway Plantation and Resort caught fire.

Dozens of fire response vehicles, ambulances and civilian cars were lined along La. 1, as smoke blown by the wind flew into the sky in gray billows from cracks in the plantation house's roof.