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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.
San Pedro La Laguna can be reached by regular boats across Lake Atitlán from Panajachel (45 min) and Santiago Atitlán (30 min), or by direct bus from Guatemala City (4 hrs), Xela (3 hrs), and Mazatenango. The town is located one hour off the Interamericana Highway (CA-1) at km 148. Buses for San Pedro depart hourly from zone 8, near the ...
The town is situated on Lake Atitlán, which has an elevation of 5,105 feet (1,556 m).The town sits on a bay of Lake Atitlán between two volcanoes. Volcán San Pedro rises to 2,846 metres (9,337 ft) west of the town and Volcan Toliman rises to 3,144 metres (10,315 ft) southeast of the town.
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.
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]
San Pablo La Laguna. San Pablo La Laguna (Spanish pronunciation: [sam ˈpaβlo la laˈɣuna]) is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala.It consists of the village that bears the name San Pablo La Laguna which is situated on the shore of Lake Atitlan between the villages of San Juan La Laguna and San Marcos La Laguna
San Juan La Laguna (Spanish pronunciation: [saŋ ˈxwan la laˈɣuna]) is a municipality on the southwest shore of Lago de Atitlán, Sololá, Guatemala. It consists of the village named San Juan La Laguna and three smaller aldeas (small villages) in the nearby mountain. The population is approximately 95% Tz'utujil. Agriculture is most ...