Mystery Location No. 264: August 1, 2021

With just 2 points at stake, it's hardly worth naming, but this is 744 Piat Road, Youngsville, Louisiana. This is a former sugar cane plantation house built in 1851 in the Acadian-style and the owner has been trying to sell it since June of 2018, when it was listed for $675,000. The seller tried everything to attract buyers, even admitting the house is haunted. By February 2021, the asking price had been cut to $487,000 and the listing has now been removed, but I don't know if it sold or if the owner just gave up and decided to keep it.

What is now Youngsville was called Royville until 1908, when the post office complained the name was too much like Rayville. Local leaders chose Youngsville as the new name, meaning "young village." Because sugar cane farming is a major industry in the area, the city's motto is "Where Life is Sweeter."

The PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank Mk I) was a portable British anti-tank weapon developed during World War II and the house is on Piat Road.

The Louisiana flag features pelicans, which are water birds, feeding their young, along with three blood drops because at one time, there was a folk belief that pelicans fed their young with their own blood.