The World's Largest Public Domain Media Search Engine
Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Similar

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

description

Summary

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, the largest intact sugar plantation in operation. It consists of approximately 3002 acres and over 75 buildings.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-12
Survey number: HAER LA-1
Building/structure dates: 1831 Initial Construction

date_range

Date

1933 - 1970
person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Barker, Frank
Boudreaux, Etienne
De Bore, Etienne
Knobloch, Clay
Lepine, J Wilson
Lepine, Wilson
Tucker, Joseph
Tucker, George Washington
Tucker, Joseph Pennington
Tucker, Caleb
Tucker, William P
Wormald, Burch A
Lowe, Jet
Leslie, Paul
place

Location

lafourche parish29.79756, -90.82446
Google Map of 29.7975573, -90.8244596
create

Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Explore more

sugar plantations
sugar plantations