Colonial Sugars Refinery
Founded in 1895 by group of financiers from Gramercy Park, New York on a site called "Faubourg Lapin". First operated as a sugar mill to process sugar cane from Golden Grove Plantation. A refinery...
Gramercy
Incorporated November, 1947, located partly on Indian-French settlement & trading post site. In 1739 much of this area was sold to Joseph Delille Dupart, a Commissioner of Indian Nations...
“Vacherie de Grande Pointe”
This area, a ridge, extends from Convent through Gramercy and ends at Grande Pointe in the rear. On this ridge, the world’s supply of a unique crop, Perique tobacco, is grown, processed and...
Lutcher
Established 1891 by H.J. Lutcher, co-owner of Lutcher & Moore Cypress Lumber Co. The town, incorporated in 1912, grew around the sawmill built on the plantation of Pierre Chenet, developer of...
Site Familial des Bourgeois
Parmi les premiers Acadiens exilés en Louisiane arrivèrent ici en 1765 onze familles Bourgeois. Site de terrains accordés en 1803 à la Veuve Jean Bourgeois et fils dont des descendants y vivent encore.
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Bourgeois Homeplace
Among the first Acadian exiles to Louisiana, eleven Bourgeois families settled this area in 1765. Site of lands granted 1803 to Widow Jean Bourgeois and sons. Bourgeois descendants still live on-site.
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Leopoldo The Second slept here
Plaque reads: Le A.A. L.L. I.I. E R.R. L' Arciduca Gran Duca Leopoldo secondo ed Il di lui figlio Arciduca Ferdinando Principe ereditario della Toscana onorarono dinloro R. presenza la sera ...
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Livermore Town Hall Jail and Firehouse
LIVERMORE TOWN HALL JAIL AND FIREHOUSE BUILT 1875, THIS BUILDING WAS FIRST A HOTEL THEN THE LIVERMORE VALLEY BANK. IT WAS THE LIVERMORE TOWN HALL FROM 1905 TO 1957. THE JAIL WAS IN THE REAR, AND...
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- light bulb
- ecv
- jail
- firehouse
- 1875
Cathedral-Carmel School
Established in 1846. A combination of Mount Carmel Academy and Cathedral School. Operated by The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Parish in the Diocese of Lafayette. Affiliated with the...
Battle of Georgia Landing
October 27, 1862 First major battle fought along Bayou Lafourche during the War Between the States. Marching from Donaldsonville Union forces under General Weitzel (8th NH, 12th & 13th CT)...
- louisiana
- u.s. civil war
Israel Baptist School (1872-1942)
In 1872, Reverend Osborne Dickerson and the First Israel B. C. congregation organized the Baptist Church School on this site to provide formal education for African American children. In...
- louisiana
- african americans
- education
St. Mary's Chapel
Built in 1875 by the Marist Fathers. Reestablished from original St. Marie du Fleuve located on White Hall Plantation. Statues transferred from rectory at Ancient Domain Plantation during...
Manuel Garcia Adobe
MANUEL GARCIA ADOBE Built in the 1840's by Manuel Garcia, a Portuguese merchant, this is the only surviving Monterey style adobe in Orange County. Owned by the Oyharzabal family since...
C.C. Bryant
Elected president of the Pike County branch of the NAACP in 1954, Curtis Conway Bryant (1917-2001) played a major role in early civil rights activism of southwest Mississippi. He campaigned to...
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- civil rights
- african american
Plaisance School
Plaisance School was built in 1921 at a total cost of $4,500.00. Funds for construction were donated by Julius Rosenwald Fund - $1,200.00; the Plaisance black community - $3,100.00; and the...
- african american
- education
McComb
Chartered 1872. Named for Col. H.S. McComb, I.C. Ry. president who established shops here. J.J.White Lumber Co. set-up 1893. McComb Female Inst., est. 1894, now Belhaven College.
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Libuse Czech Colony
In 1908, the Bohemian Colonization Club was begun by J. Rosicky, publisher & editor of the Hospodář, to establish family centered Czech colonies. In 1912, Wesly Wosterchil, Frank Zumpfe, and J....
- louisiana
- czech
Presentation Academy
Site of first Catholic school in Avoyelles Parish - 1855. Founded by Daughters of the Cross of Treguier, France, under Mother Mary Hyacinth Le Conniat on request of Bishop Martin. Battle...
- louisiana
- education
Louisiana College
The roots of Louisiana College extend to schools at Mount Lebanon (Bienville Parish) and Keachie (DeSoto Parish), founded in the 1850's by north Louisiana Baptists. By the end of the...
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- education
Seven Brothers Oak
On April 4, 1809, Louisiana cotton planter Jean Henri Lastrapes became the proud father of a new baby boy. Because this was his seventh son, he immediately sent workers out to gather seven...