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founder of the Leon Godchaux Clothing Co. and Godchaux Sugars Inc., sugar cane farming and refining Leon Godchaux (June 10, 1824 – May 18, 1899) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was a French-born American businessman, planter, sugar plantation owner and the founder of the Leon Godchaux Clothing Co. department store and Godchaux Sugars Inc ..
President William Howard Taft (1909) at the Godchaux–Reserve Plantation The Godchaux Sugar Refinery (1938). Godchaux–Reserve Plantation, also known as Godchaux–Boudousquie Plantation, and the Reserve Plantation, is a former plantation, former site of a sugar refinery, and once included a historic house built in 1764, located in Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana.
The Godchaux–Reserve Plantation was built by Leon Godchaux, and the oldest portion of the plantation home dates to 1764, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [1] [2] In the early 20th century, the plantation at Reserve had the largest sugarcane refinery in the United States, named Godchaux Sugar Refinery. [3]
The good news for the milkvetch plant is that they usually need wildfire to sprout — meaning dormant seeds now have a massive new habitat for a new crop of the rare shrub.
Peter Michael Wolf, a fifth-generation member of the Godchaux-Weis-Wolf family, was born in New Orleans. [1] He is the author of several books, including the biography The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux, A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots and his memoir, My New Orleans, Gone Away – A Memoir of Loss and Renewal.
Nearly a decade after controversial reality show Gigolos went off the air, a new docuseries is set to cover the violent death of a woman at the hands of one of the show's former stars.. Gigolos ...
Chanel Iman and New England Patriots' Davon Godchaux tied the knot-- at sea. The model and the NFL pro eloped and had a destination wedding aboard a yacht on Feb. 24 on the Caribbean Sea in Anguilla.
Godchaux is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Donna Jean Godchaux (born 1947), ... Leon Godchaux (1824–1899), American businessman, planter;