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The property that came to be known as Laurel Valley Plantation was officially 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.
Town, Parish Parish Notes; 87000849 ... Lafourche Parish: 80001709 ... Listed as "Cinclare Sugar Mill Historic District" 83000533
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 ...
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Long a center of sugar cane plantations and sugar production, in November 1887 the parish was the site of the Thibodaux Massacre. After state militia were used to suppress a massive Knights of Labor strike involving 10,000 workers in four parishes, many African Americans retreated to Thibodaux.
The house was originally the manor house for a 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) sugar plantation. [2] [6] [7] Thomas Pugh was the half brother of William Whitmell Hill Pugh who owned the Woodlawn plantation and Alexander Franklin Pugh who was part owner of the Augustin, Bellevue, Boatner, and New Hope plantations. [8] Thomas Pugh died of yellow fever in ...
Champomier in his sugar report calls this estate "Riensy Plantation." In 1859 this plantation produced 950 hogsheads of sugar, by far the most in Lafourche Parish. Laborers on Rienzi were some of the first to strike during the fall of 1887 in a movement organized by the Knights of Labor in Thibodaux and the surrounding parishes.
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 ...