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Unincorporated areas of interest in the parish include Brule, Clotilda, Chackbay, Choctaw, Gheens, Godchaux, Kraemer Post Office, Lafourche, Laurelgrant, Leeville, Leighton, Ludevine, Mathews, Morvant, Port Fourchon, Raceland Junction, St. Charles, Savoie - Bayou Blue, Thibadaux Junction and Valentine. |
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Wisner Wildlife Management Area |
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Bayou Pointe Au Chein Camarada Bay Gulf of Mexico Intra Coastal Water Way Lac Des Allemands Lake Salvador Mississippi River Terrebonne Bay Timbalier Bay |
Francis Tillou Nicholls (1834-1912) St. John’s Episcopal Church |
History | |
| 1775 |
Originating as a 1775 Spanish grant to Etienne Boudreaux, Laurel Valley Plantation is the largest nineteenth century sugar plantation complex still surviving. A self contained community of over 72 structures, it will survive the Civil war intact and continued to prosper under the ownership of the J. Wilson Lepine family which bought the 3,000-acre plantation in 1890. The Lepine family has established a non-profit corporation, Laurel Valley Village which includes most of the plantation’s original structures, built around 1840, on a 30 acre tract. Although the cabins and ruins of the old sugar mill are off-limits to tourists, visitors may drive through the village in Thibodaux, La. |
| 1803 |
Located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche in Thibodaux, The Rienzi Plantation house is built, according to legend, as a possible refuge for Queen Maria Louisa, Consort of Charles IV of Spain during this turbulent time in Spanish history. She prevails in the civil war and in 1803 the plantation is purchased by Juan Ygnacio de Egana who had been a representative of Maria Louisa. Later an Italian is said to have owned the plantation and named it after a fourteenth century Italian patriot Cola de Rienzi. The house has two intersecting center halls on each floor. One of the halls on the lower floor was originally a carriage-way through the center of the house, but has been closed in since the 1850s. Most of the details are atypical of this period of Louisiana architecture , such as the double exterior stairs in front that gracefully curve for part of their ascent away from the gallery. |
| 1805 |
When the Territory of Orleans is divided into counties the present-day Lafourche Parish is part of Lafourche County |
| 1805 |
Charles A. Koch builds St. Emma Plantation house (1854) on Bayou Lafourche. He is also the builder of Belle Alliance plantation and is one of the larger sugar producers in the state at this time, owning more than 300 slaves. |
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Education |
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Lumcom Library Head Librarian - Donna Rice 8124 Hwy 56 Chauvin, LA 70344-2124 Email - drice@lumcom.edu www.lumcom.edu/library.htm Director -Kathleen Kilgen 303 W Fifth St. Thibodaux, LA 70301-3123 Email - 6 Branches - Cut-Off /Galliano, Golden Meadow, Larose, Lockport, Raceland, Martha Sowell Utley Memorial Allen J. Ellender Memorial Library Director - P. O. Box 2028 Thibodaux, LA 70310 Email - el-mld@nich/nsunet.nich.edu Server.nich.edu/nsic/acad/ellander/ellander.html American Library Directory 1999-2000, R. R. Bowker |
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