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The plantation consisted of over 10,000 acres of sugar cane fields, a sugar mill, and a race track. [4] Through Southdown Plantation, the Minors were instrumental in introducing and sustaining the sugar industry in the area, and ensuring the survival of the crop by developing a variety of sugar cane that was resistant to mosaic disease. [8]
The Southdown Plantation, owned by William J. Minor. Captain William J. Minor (January 27, 1808 – September 18, 1869) was an American planter, enslaver, and banker in the antebellum Southern United States. Educated in Philadelphia, he lived at the Concord plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, and served as the second President of the ...
He turned his land grants into nine plantations, including the Southdown Plantation in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, where he grew sugar cane. [2] [6] In 1797, his plantations produced twenty-five hundred bales of cotton. [5] He became one of Natchez's richest residents in the 1810s and 1820s. [5]
The first plantation in the parish was established in 1828. By 1851, Terrebonne had 110 plantations with 80 sugar houses (small sugar cane mills). Thousands of enslaved Africans were brought to the parish through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Southdown Plantation was founded in 1828 by the Minor family. They held hundreds of enslaved Africans ...
The Krumbhaar family, through Margaret's Grandfather, William J. Minor built the famous Southdown Plantation. This plantation home is also on Highway 311 only a few miles from Downtown Houma, Louisiana, about seven miles from Ardoyne. Today it serves as a museum of local history and gathering place for many outings, music and craft events.
Southdown Plantation. January 18, 1974 : 1 mile southwest of Houma on Louisiana Highway 311 Houma: 21: Wesley House: Wesley House: August 11, 1982 : 1210 E. Main St. ...
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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.