Orderly Oak Manor
The entranceway of Oak Manor.
Tanner Franklin.
If the Colonel and his family represent the economic heart of Dixie Landings, then the Tanner Franklin clan must surely be its royalty. Franklin, descended from two of Louisiana’s most prominent families, brought a tradition of honest government to the bayou, serving as Dixie Landings’ first mayor and, later, as the area’s first U.S. senator.
Although quite well-to-do by birth, Tanner Franklin amassed a vast fortune growing cotton in the fertile Louisiana heartland. His home, the strong and solid Oak Manor, reflects both his wealth and his sense of order in its brick pathways, its impressive courtyard and its awesome white columns.
