Myrtles Plantation is currently a Bed and Breakfast located in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Build in 1796 by General David Bradford “Whiskey Dave,” when he fled the United States to avoid arrest and imprisonment for his role in the Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion. At that time, this part of Louisiana was a Spanish Colony, and Bradford obtained a land grant of 650 acres to begin a new life.

In 1799, Bradford was pardoned by President John Adams, and he promptly moved his wife Elizabeth and their five children into the plantation with him. He died in 1808, and Elizabeth continued to run the plantation until 1817, when she handed management over to Judge Clarke Woodruff, one of Bradford’s former law students, and the husband of his daughter, Sara Mathilda.