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It is located along Louisiana Highway 18 in Vacherie, St. James Parish. Felicity is a sister plantation to St. Joseph Plantation, [1] and was built around 1846 (or 1850) [2] by Valcour Aime as a wedding gift to his daughter, Felicite Emma, and her spouse, Septime Fortier, [3] who was also her cousin. [4]
Vacherie: Early 19th-century plantation, joined in 1890 with Felicity Plantation to form the St. Joseph Plantation & Manufacturing Company. Privately owned. 20: St. Michael's Church Historic District: St. Michael's Church Historic District: November 15, 1979 : Louisiana Highway 44
Felicity Plantation: March 8, 2010: Vacherie: St. James: Sister plantation to St. Joseph Plantation, built circa 1850 and privately owned. 80001712 Frogmore Plantation: May 31, 1980: Ferriday: Concordia: Established circa 1815, Frogmore Plantation has a steam-powered cotton gin. 82004674 Frozard Plantation House: August 12, 1982: Grand Coteau ...
The best known location in the community is the Oak Alley Plantation. There are several other historic plantations in the area: Laura, Desire, St. Joseph, and Felicity. The last two were combined in 1890. Vacherie was used as a filming location for the TV series True Detective. [1]
St. Joseph Plantation is located at 3535 Hwy 18 Vacherie, LA 70090, adjacent to Oak Alley Plantation and up-river from Laura Plantation. The plantation was first owned by Josephine Aime Ferry in 1830, but the Ferry family sold it to Joseph Waguespack (1802-1892) in 1877 (Waguespack's son, Aubert Florian, owned Laura Plantation).
Aime inherited the family plantation in St. Charles Parish, and a fortune of $100,000 (~$2.73 million in 2023) in 1818; but he sold his portion of the plantation and bought several other plantations in St. James Parish, where he began the cultivation of sugar cane. By the 1830s, his plantation had grown to 10,000 acres and was the leading sugar ...
St. James Parish (French: Paroisse de Saint-Jacques) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.The parish seat is Convent. [1] The parish was created in 1807. [2] St. James Parish is a part of the New Orleans–Metairie, Louisiana metropolitan statistical area, sitting between New Orleans and Baton Rouge on the Mississippi Ri
Tally-Ho Plantation House, Bayou Goula; Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Thibodaux; Hotel Maison De Ville, New Oeleans, Louisiana; Whitney Plantation Historic District, near Wallace; Nottoway Plantation, near White Castle; Uncle Sam Plantation, near Convent; LaBranche Plantation Dependency, in St. Rose; Felicity Plantation, in Vacherie