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The property that came to be known as Laurel Valley Plantation was sold to Joseph W. Tucker in 1832. Tucker was a Virginian who bought about 5,000 acres of land along Bayou Lafourche. It was at one time the largest producer of sugar in Lafourche Parish, and a mill was built on the property for this purpose.
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.
Town, Parish Parish Notes; 87000849 ... Lafourche Parish: 80001709 ... Listed as "Cinclare Sugar Mill Historic District" 83000533
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The parish has two plants: the Houma Water Plant, which draws its water from either the Intracoastal or Bayou Black, and the Schriever Water Plant, which draws from Bayou Lafourche.
Thibodaux (/ ˈ t ɪ b ə d oʊ / TIB-ə-doh) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, [3] along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. [4]
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 ...
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