Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Significance: Although the building is now in ruins, a large collection of plantation records covering the period 1897-1926 has survived. Thus the manufacture of sugar can be examined from the perspective of a typical early twentieth-century sugarhouse.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-12

Survey number: HAER LA-1-A

Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1895- 1900 A

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001426

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