Caliga Hall was a plantation in the Scarlett Meadows region of Louisiana (in Assumption Parish) which was owned by the Gray family during the 19th and 20th centuries. Located just east of Rhodes and west of New Orleans, Caliga Hall was established during the Old South era, and the Grays owned a large number of slaves and oversaw a booming tobacco and cotton industry. After the abolition of slavery, the Gray family lost much of its wealth, and it became rivals with the Braithwaite family due to a dispute over Confederate gold. The Gray family became highly influential in the Rhodes area, with Leigh Gray becoming its sheriff during the 1890s. The Braithwaites recruited Dutch van der Linde's gang to help them in their war, despite Dutch being an ally of Leigh Gray, and Arthur Morgan and Sean MacGuire burned down the tobacco fields at Caliga Hall in 1899. By 1907, however, the prosperous Gray family still owned the plantation, whose tobacco fields had recovered.
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