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With about 40 original structures remaining, it is the largest surviving 19th- and 20th-century sugar plantation complex left in the United States, [3] and it is still a working sugarcane farm. [2] The general store on the property is open to the public, displaying tools and farm implements used in the cultivation of sugar cane as well as ...
The plantation consisted of over 10,000 acres of sugar cane fields, a sugar mill, and a race track. [4] Through Southdown Plantation, the Minors were instrumental in introducing and sustaining the sugar industry in the area, and ensuring the survival of the crop by developing a variety of sugar cane that was resistant to mosaic disease. [8]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1 ...
Sugarcane was first planted in New Orleans in 1751 by French Jesuit priests. After Étienne de Boré introduced sugar refining to Louisiana in 1795, sugarcane production in Louisiana expanded dramatically; sugar was grown on plantations using slave labor. By the 1840s, Louisiana produced between 25% and 50% of sugar consumed in the US but it ...
Bayside (Jeanerette, Louisiana) Belle Alliance Plantation; Belle Grove (Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana) Belle Grove Plantation (Iberville Parish, Louisiana) Bocage Plantation; Butler Greenwood Plantation
Georgetown University’s Jesuit founders sold nearly 300 enslaved people to Louisiana sugarcane planters in 1838 to pay off the university’s The post La. exhibit tells story of nearly 300 ...
Jean Étienne de Boré (27 December 1741 – 1 February 1820) was a Creole French planter, born in Kaskaskia, Illinois Country, who was known for producing the first granulated sugar in Louisiana. At the time, the area was under Spanish rule. His innovation made sugar cane profitable as a commodity crop and planters began to cultivate it in ...
Aime inherited the family plantation in St. Charles Parish, and a fortune of $100,000 (~$2.73 million in 2023) in 1818; but he sold his portion of the plantation and bought several other plantations in St. James Parish, where he began the cultivation of sugar cane. By the 1830s, his plantation had grown to 10,000 acres and was the leading sugar ...