Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA
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
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
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
Location
lafourche parish, 29.79756, -90.82446
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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