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Baldwin Lodge
To answer question asked of Scott, I submit the following off the top of my head:
I choose not to call Baldwin a plantation, as I do not know any evidence that it was such. I call it Baldwin Lodge. What we know is that the creator was a wealthy man who lived on Esplanade in New Orleans, in one of the largest and most palatial homes on the avenue.
I think he made his fortune in hardware during the Civil War. If there is no file in the place section, one might look under the name section and we should have a long description of his family life written by two sisters (grandchildren, I believe).
Back to the lodge: It was that, a lodge. It was on Mulatto Bayou, a distributary of the Pearl River. He would take his friends there by his own steamboat. (I seem to remember that it was coal-powered.) There they could gamble and probably fish. Although the house is gone except for steps and swimming pool, it must have been lovely.
In later years, after the L&N began regular trips to and from NO and Gulf Coast, I was a normal stop when used as a fishing village.