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Mathews is a census-designated place (CDP) on Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,273 in 2020. The population was 2,273 in 2020. It is part of the Houma – Bayou Cane – Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area .
George and Harriett Mathews raised indigo, cotton, sugar cane, and corn on the plantation, shipping the crops from their own dock on Bayou Sara and extending their land holdings to include a sugar plantation in Lafourche Parish that, according to Lewis Gray's figures, placed them among the top 9% of sugar planters in the state in the 1850s. [3]
Location of Lafourche Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Terrebonne Parish is receiving all of its drinking water from Bayou Lafourche after salt water intrusion caused the Houma water plant to shut down, November 10.
Lafourche Parish (French: Paroisse de la Fourche) is a parish located in the south of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Thibodaux. [1] The parish was formed in 1807. [2] It was originally the northern part of Lafourche Interior Parish, which consisted of the present parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne.
Crude oil invades Bayou Lafourche Saturday, July 27, from a leak at a Crescent Midland facility between 4065 and 4101 LA 308.
Harriett and Judge George Mathews lived at Butler Greenwood and used the forced labor of enslaved people to grow indigo, cotton, sugarcane, and corn, shipping the crops from their dock on Bayou Sara and extending their landholdings to include a productive sugar plantation in Lafourche Parish that, according to Lewis Gray's figures, placed them ...
Cleaning crews return with bags of absorbents as they hurry to remove 820 barrels of crude oil from Bayou Lafourche, July 28. The oil escaped a Crescent Midland facility, July 27, and the cause is ...