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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South ...

Significance: The Double Houses are of the type found on plantations throughout the Bayou LaFourche region. It has various folk type characteristics which are known as double pen or saddlebag. The Laurel Vall... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibo...

Significance: Drainage, as effected through a system of ditches leading back to a pumping plant in the rear of a plantation, was an essential facet of operations on low-lying Louisiana sugar plantations. The s... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Corn Crib, 2 miles South of Thibodaux ...

Significance: This is the most interesting livestock-agricultural building to survive at Laurel Valley due to the hoisting assembly in the structure which facilitated the storage of feed corn. The Y-shaped tra... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibo...

Significance: Drainage, as effected through a system of ditches leading back to a pumping plant in the rear of a plantation, was an essential facet of operations on low-lying Louisiana sugar plantations. The s... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibo...

Significance: Drainage, as effected through a system of ditches leading back to a pumping plant in the rear of a plantation, was an essential facet of operations on low-lying Louisiana sugar plantations. The s... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South ...

Significance: The Double Houses are of the type found on plantations throughout the Bayou LaFourche region. It has various folk type characteristics which are known as double pen or saddlebag. The Laurel Vall... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Boarding House, 2 miles South of Thibo...

Significance: The Boarding House, built around 1898 by Barker-Lepine, is a two-story balloon framed structure and the largest multiple living unit on the plantation. It housed seasonal workers during the grind... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibo...

Significance: Drainage, as effected through a system of ditches leading back to a pumping plant in the rear of a plantation, was an essential facet of operations on low-lying Louisiana sugar plantations. The s... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, General Store, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, General Store, 2 Miles South of Thibod...

Significance: Built around 1905 by Barker-Lepine to replace an older structure that had burned, the Laurel Valley Store served the needs of plantation workers as well as others living along the bayou. Here cus... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South ...

Significance: The Double Houses are of the type found on plantations throughout the Bayou LaFourche region. It has various folk type characteristics which are known as double pen or saddlebag. The Laurel Vall... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South ...

Significance: The Double Houses are of the type found on plantations throughout the Bayou LaFourche region. It has various folk type characteristics which are known as double pen or saddlebag. The Laurel Vall... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South ...

Significance: The Double Houses are of the type found on plantations throughout the Bayou LaFourche region. It has various folk type characteristics which are known as double pen or saddlebag. The Laurel Vall... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Corn Crib, 2 miles South of Thibodaux ...

Significance: This is the most interesting livestock-agricultural building to survive at Laurel Valley due to the hoisting assembly in the structure which facilitated the storage of feed corn. The Y-shaped tra... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Shotgun Quarters, 2 miles South of Thi...

Significance: This structure is linear in construction and used extensively in Bayou LaFourche plantations and the surrounding area. The term is derived from the belief that a shotgun could be fired from the f... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South ...

Significance: The Double Houses are of the type found on plantations throughout the Bayou LaFourche region. It has various folk type characteristics which are known as double pen or saddlebag. The Laurel Vall... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, School House, 2 miles South of Thiboda...

Significance: Built around 1906 by Barker-Lepine, this building served the educational needs of the plantation children until its closing in 1952. The structure follows and open construction, with a perimeter ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Shotgun Quarters, 2 miles South of Thi...

Significance: This structure is linear in construction and used extensively in Bayou LaFourche plantations and the surrounding area. The term is derived from the belief that a shotgun could be fired from the f... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Shotgun Quarters, 2 miles South of Thi...

Significance: This structure is linear in construction and used extensively in Bayou LaFourche plantations and the surrounding area. The term is derived from the belief that a shotgun could be fired from the f... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Boarding House, 2 miles South of Thibo...

Significance: The Boarding House, built around 1898 by Barker-Lepine, is a two-story balloon framed structure and the largest multiple living unit on the plantation. It housed seasonal workers during the grind... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, School House, 2 miles South of Thiboda...

Significance: Built around 1906 by Barker-Lepine, this building served the educational needs of the plantation children until its closing in 1952. The structure follows and open construction, with a perimeter ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, School House, 2 miles South of Thiboda...

Significance: Built around 1906 by Barker-Lepine, this building served the educational needs of the plantation children until its closing in 1952. The structure follows and open construction, with a perimeter ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Shotgun Quarters, 2 miles South of Thi...

Significance: This structure is linear in construction and used extensively in Bayou LaFourche plantations and the surrounding area. The term is derived from the belief that a shotgun could be fired from the f... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Shotgun Quarters, 2 miles South of Thi...

Significance: This structure is linear in construction and used extensively in Bayou LaFourche plantations and the surrounding area. The term is derived from the belief that a shotgun could be fired from the f... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Shotgun Quarters, 2 miles South of Thi...

Significance: This structure is linear in construction and used extensively in Bayou LaFourche plantations and the surrounding area. The term is derived from the belief that a shotgun could be fired from the f... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Boarding House, 2 miles South of Thibo...

Significance: The Boarding House, built around 1898 by Barker-Lepine, is a two-story balloon framed structure and the largest multiple living unit on the plantation. It housed seasonal workers during the grind... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibo...

Significance: Drainage, as effected through a system of ditches leading back to a pumping plant in the rear of a plantation, was an essential facet of operations on low-lying Louisiana sugar plantations. The s... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South ...

Significance: The Double Houses are of the type found on plantations throughout the Bayou LaFourche region. It has various folk type characteristics which are known as double pen or saddlebag. The Laurel Vall... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, School House, 2 miles South of Thiboda...

Significance: Built around 1906 by Barker-Lepine, this building served the educational needs of the plantation children until its closing in 1952. The structure follows and open construction, with a perimeter ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Boarding House, 2 miles South of Thibo...

Significance: The Boarding House, built around 1898 by Barker-Lepine, is a two-story balloon framed structure and the largest multiple living unit on the plantation. It housed seasonal workers during the grind... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South ...

Significance: The Double Houses are of the type found on plantations throughout the Bayou LaFourche region. It has various folk type characteristics which are known as double pen or saddlebag. The Laurel Vall... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Boarding House, 2 miles South of Thibo...

Significance: The Boarding House, built around 1898 by Barker-Lepine, is a two-story balloon framed structure and the largest multiple living unit on the plantation. It housed seasonal workers during the grind... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibo...

Significance: Drainage, as effected through a system of ditches leading back to a pumping plant in the rear of a plantation, was an essential facet of operations on low-lying Louisiana sugar plantations. The s... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, General Store, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, General Store, 2 Miles South of Thibod...

Significance: Built around 1905 by Barker-Lepine to replace an older structure that had burned, the Laurel Valley Store served the needs of plantation workers as well as others living along the bayou. Here cus... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Corn Crib, 2 miles South of Thibodaux ...

Significance: This is the most interesting livestock-agricultural building to survive at Laurel Valley due to the hoisting assembly in the structure which facilitated the storage of feed corn. The Y-shaped tra... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Shotgun Quarters, 2 miles South of Thi...

Significance: This structure is linear in construction and used extensively in Bayou LaFourche plantations and the surrounding area. The term is derived from the belief that a shotgun could be fired from the f... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Engineer's House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Engineer's House, 2 Miles South of Thi...

Significance: The Creole House is the most common folk house in French Louisiana. Constructed by everyday folks, from preconceived ideas of what constitutes a proper house, folk houses are identical in form, b... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Railroad, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux o...

Significance: Though no trace remains of this railroad today, it is important to consider it in studying the history of Laurel Valley. The railroad became a vital element of the plantation's operation during t... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, General Store, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, General Store, 2 Miles South of Thibod...

Significance: Built around 1905 by Barker-Lepine to replace an older structure that had burned, the Laurel Valley Store served the needs of plantation workers as well as others living along the bayou. Here cus... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Double Creole Quarters, 2 Miles South ...

Significance: The Double Houses are of the type found on plantations throughout the Bayou LaFourche region. It has various folk type characteristics which are known as double pen or saddlebag. The Laurel Vall... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche, Larose, Lafourche Parish, LA

Motorized Sailing Vessel "Fox", Beached on East Bank ofBayou Lafourche...

Significance: The M/V Fox represents an antique, possibly unique, and heretofore undocumented vessel form, and may constitute the sole survivor of an extinct South Louisiana vernacular vessel form. Unprocessed... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Boarding House, 2 miles South of Thibo...

Significance: The Boarding House, built around 1898 by Barker-Lepine, is a two-story balloon framed structure and the largest multiple living unit on the plantation. It housed seasonal workers during the grind... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Boarding House, 2 miles South of Thibo...

Significance: The Boarding House, built around 1898 by Barker-Lepine, is a two-story balloon framed structure and the largest multiple living unit on the plantation. It housed seasonal workers during the grind... More

Lockport Company Canal Bridge, Carries Louisiana Highway 1 (LA 1) over Lockport Company Canal, Lockport, Lafourche Parish, LA

Lockport Company Canal Bridge, Carries Louisiana Highway 1 (LA 1) over...

Significance: The Lockport Company Canal Bridge is significant as an intact representative example of a tower-drive vertical lift bridge, a subtype within the vertical lift bridge subtype. The bridge's variatio... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche ...

Significance: Largest nineteenth-century sugar plantation still intact in the United States. // Fronting Bayou LaFourche about two miles south of Thibodaux on Louisiana Highway 308 is Laurel Valley Plantation, ... More

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

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

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 ... More

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