La Pointe-Krebs House was built during the turn of the century at approximately 1700 and was occupied by its first generation until the hurricane which demolished it in 1772. Please visit the 18th Century page for an overview of cultural characteristics relative to other time periods. More detailed information of the time as it may pertain to the site itself is as follows.

Throughout the French, British, and Spanish colonial periods of the 18th century, plantations were established in the northern Gulf Coast region, from New Orleans to northwest Florida. Colonial plantations ranged from concessions of a few hundred to thousands of acres although only a small percent was improved and cultivated. Colonial plantation homes and support buildings were small, usually made of wooden posts set vertically in trenches, and typically French in character. Enslaved Indians and Africans labored under the watch of overseers since the owners usually lived in town and only stayed at their plantations during growing and harvesting seasons.

The vast forests of the northern Gulf Coast were exploited for lumber, wood products, and the naval stores industry producing pine tar, resin, and pitch. One Spanish visitor claimed that the pines are so numerous that without exaggeration pitch and tar can be made for the entire world. Oak, cypress, and pine were made into clapboard and flooring, cypress into roof shingles, poplar into planking and boats, and pine into shipmasts. Other products and uses included furniture, wagons and carts, barrels and boxes, bark siding and shingles, and cord wood.