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| | St. Francisville, Louisiana Travel Highlights |
 | | In the 1960’s the Afton Villa house burned to the ground, but its ruins have been used adaptively to create a magnificent garden setting to complement the existing plantings in the formal parterres and rolling terraces, and it remains one of the area’s most popular seasonal tourist attractions. |
 | | Susan Barrow, with the support of her husband David, donated to the trustees of the Afton Villa Colored Baptist Church a small piece of land one-fourth of a mile from the Afton gate, for the purpose of erecting a church and school. |
 | | Afton Villa Church, just north of St. Francisville off US Highway 61, is still going strong, however, and members are now attempting to have the church listed on the National Register of Historic Places, remaining ever mindful of its place in history as well as in the present. |
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