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Italianate and Greek Revival style home on a working sugar cane plantation; owned by the same family for 150+ years, named for the city in Missouri. Private. 79001104 St. Maurice Plantation: April 3, 1979: St. Maurice Pointe Coupee: 03000680 Star Hill Plantation Dependency: July 24, 2003: Star Hill West Feliciana: Also known as Star Hill ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Sugar plantations in Louisiana" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, near Wallace, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18. The main house was constructed mostly in 1790, and renovated to its current Greek Revival style in 1832.
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]
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 ..
Alma is one of only 11 sugar mills still operating in the state of Louisiana. [1] It produces raw sugar and blackstrap molasses. During the harvesting of sugar cane, known locally as "the grinding season", Alma Plantation becomes one of the area's largest employers. Sugar cane is brought to this mill for processing from a number of surrounding ...