Greenfield elevator scuttled as Corps weighed site's significance to slave, plantation history

Angelica and Rodney Mitchell always thought plans to build a large grain export facility just next door to their home in Wallace was out of step with the needs of their historic community. So the couple were thrilled by the surprise announcement last week that Greenfield was scuttling its plans to build an $800 million complex in the shadow of the Veterans Memorial Bridge in St. John the Baptist Parish. "I never thought the project was a fit for this area," Angelica Mitchell said. But Nicole Dumas, 48, a Wallace...