White Castle is located in Iberville Parish within the Plantation Country Region, between Baton Rouge and Thibodaux along Highway 1 on the banks of the Mississippi River near Plaquemine and Donaldsonville. <br> The village of White Castle was so named because of the Nottoway Plantation which is on the Mississippi River nearby. Nottoway claims to be the largest Antebellum Plantation in the south and is one of the favorite stopping places for tourists to Louisiana's River Road.<br> 1860 Nottoway Plantation house is finished in White Castle, La. Architect Henry Howard designs it for wealthy planter John Hampden Randolph who names it after the Nottoway River in Virginia. It is the largest plantation home in the South with sixty-four rooms and 53,000 square feet. The house was restored by Arlin Dease and opened to the public in 1981.