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Unincorporated areas of interest in the parish include Armant, Belmont, Caire Spur, Central, Convent, Grand Point, Helvetia, Hester, Hymel, Lagan, Lauderdale, Lower Vacherie, Malarcher, Oak Alley, Oneida, Paulina, Remy, Romeville, St. Elmo, St. James, St. Mary, Uncle Sam, Union, Vacherie and Welcome |
Colonel Leopold L Armant Convent First Acadian Settlers James Mather Judge Poche’ Plantation House Le Chimin Militaire Le Petit Versailles Oak Alley Plantation St. Jacques de Cabahanoce Tezcuco Plantation Uncle Sam Plantation Vacherie de Grande Pointe Vacherie White Hall Plantation (La Maison Blanche) |
History | |
| 1805 |
When the Territory of Orleans is divided into counties the present-day St. James Parish is part of Acadia County |
| 1825 |
Noted Revolutionary War Colonel Wade Hampton purchases La Maison Blanche (White Hall Plantation) a Spanish colonial plantation home St. James Parish. White Hall changed hands several times before it burned about 1850. |
| 1845 |
Florent and A. Septime Fortier, brothers, acquire the Richbend plantation in St. James Parish. The brothers married the daughters of Valcour Aime whose plantation adjoined theirs. |
| 1853 |
Jean-Sylvain Gentil (1829-1911) settles in St. James Parish after being imprisoned, then exiled by Napoleon III. He will be a resident of Louisiana for the rest of his years, except for one year back in Spain after the downfall of Napoleon III. Gentil enjoys challenging the accepted precepts of church, state and society. He is known as a newspaperman and gadfly, but is also a prolific and largely unpublished poet. |
| 1854 |
San Francisco Plantation house is finished by Edmond B. Marmillion who owned one of the first sugar mills in Louisiana. The floor plan is an early Creole design, but the exterior has Corinthian columns and elaborately carved railings in a Rococco style. It has five hand-painted ceiling frescoes, painted marbling and wood graining. The name is derived from sans frusquin which translates as One’s All or my last red cent in French slang at the time, which is what he may have spent to finish the building. Operated by the San Francisco Plantation Foundation, it can be toured for a fee. |
| 1855 |
Tezcuco Plantation in St. James Parish is built by Benjamin F. Tureaud, for his wife Aglae, daughter of Michel Douradose Bringier of LVHermitage. It is constructed of plantation-made red brick and Louisiana Cypress. Purchased in 1888 by Dr. Julian T. Bringier. Retained by relatives until the 1940s. Tours are available today. |
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