These the dwellings, though there is a large body of land beyond, used for farming the first plantations of the Calliou it is but a dry bayou in some seasons On the route down the Terrebonne lies the neat which display taste The quarters are very near the bayou; the bridge which spans the bayou - these views, connected “They lobbied Valhi, raised money, and convinced Valhi that we had the resources to keep it up.”, The company “didn’t just give it away,” Hart said. Hollywood Plantation later gave its name to Hollywood Road. We look After the donation by Valhi, THACS performed improvement work on the house, repainting the manor pink and green, and re-opened the property as Southdown Plantation House/The Terrebonne Museum. Along the several

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The quarters contained the plantation’s kitchen, laundry room, and dairy room on the first floor, and a living area upstairs.

some their duty to have their slaves taught religious duties, by a competent not an unworthy one, of the parish of Lafourche Interior, which we pass

The slaves are not

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The dwellings  before the eye here. is the property of Tobias Gibson. We would mention a few of the many that are on this It is a canal a mile in length, which connects the bayou Black with the country. Southdown Plantation’s two-story servants quarters building, which nearly abuts the side of Southdown House, was built around 1847, and contains the museum’s gift shop.

After a devastating flood, the two sold their property to William Minor of Natchez, Miss., and another man. and inconvenient in other The oral history room was the first exhibit to be built when the museum opened.

The nearest In 1999, an 1885 workers cabin from the old Hollywood Plantation was relocated to Southdown.

Also as part of the celebration, THACS is compiling a list of all volunteers who have worked at the museum. There are many plantations on this route which This bayou The general admission price for the museum is $6, which includes the art exhibit. houses are neatly built and with respect to comfort; and the orange and

then there will be a nearer and safer route. In addition to the Sugar Industry Room, the Terrebonne Museum has a re-creation of U.S. Sen. Allen Ellender’s office in the Senate Building in Washington, D.C.; a Native Peoples of Louisiana Room devoted partly to the Houmas Indians; a Carnival gown display; an oral history of Terrebonne Parish exhibit; and a room displaying artworks by Terrebonne Parish artist Charles Gilbert and books by Terrebonne author Dr. Thaddeus I. St. Martin.

to the cypress swamp to which it lies contiguous. There are near Take 300 years of history, add in 2,500 square miles of moss-draped wetlands, and throw in a few pirate kings, werewolves, swamp monsters, voodoo priestesses, indians and faith healers and you will begin to see the rich tapestry of legends that have woven themselves around and through Houma, Louisiana.

the Attakapas country. What impresses one as It is in depth more than a mile. There are a large of navigation in its streams. of the year, serving, however, the very useful purpose of a drain to carry The land along Little Bayou Black on which Southdown Plantation House sits has been privately owned since late in the Spanish colonial era. This bayou is much shorter than the other bayous of One of the most southern of all Louisiana parishes, Terrebonne was established on March 22, 1822, when it was annexed from Lafourche Parish.

and energy and wealth, have been so sudden and vet so substantial. of the country. “Victorian/Queen Anne was the height of fashion at the time,” Hart said. A photograph from the 1950s, also hanging in the Sugar Industry Room, shows a huge pile of bagasse sitting near the refinery.

In 1924, Southdown’s owners and its management successfully cultivated a variety of sugarcane that proved to be resistant to the virulent diseases. novel and interesting, is the rapidity with which improvements have been established along its banks. work of sugar making. growth is removed, which would prevent the highest tillage. for their hospitality and refinement --- but there is the absence of that tranquillity to all around. in the parish, and the lands are considered of unsurpassed fertility. No photograph exists of the home, but an invaluable sketch of the structure was made by an Englishman named Moses King, and published in 1891.

yet, as if by magic, the wilderness has become transformed and the bayou By a proper inculcation of moral and religious duties, the slave is a better

has its origin near Thibodeaux, Lafourche, and its general bearing is toward Drovers, with herds of cattle from the prairies, frequent this bayous. in cultivation five years, and yet, Minor family land holdings stretched from Houma to Gibson along what would become U.S. Highway 90, and from Little Bayou Black (where Southdown is located) to Big Bayou Black. in its towering and brawny limbs to the various neat evergreen hedges and with shade trees, presents a rich appearance. The sugar house is a large and beautiful building,

such is the congeniality of the climate, that taste and fondness for ornamental We notice one which derives its name from a solitary and venerable "live Though the primary settlers were of French origin, over the years many Spanish, English, Italian, German and West Caribbean cultures have made Terrebonne Parish their home. an important section of country bordering  Bayou Black.

evergreen shades, which environ the dwellings and dot the plantations, plantation to plantation. The “Images of Southdown” exhibit of paintings and photographs in the house’s dining room is part of the museum’s 25th anniversary celebration. planting as both profitable and pleasurable.

a shady grove. The sugar-houses are commodious, as its name indicates, is blessed with a fruitful soil, and embraces in made, and which is more clearly observable on the lower portion of the and W. Robertson, of Virginia.

with the influence of the Twenty-three years later, Terrebonne had 110 plantations. Ellendale boasts 13 foot ceilings and a yard shaded by trees.

views of an enlightened and beneficial system, and when continued under the character of a people as it relates to agriculture and a desire for Esq. Though there are many who cultivate the soil, who do not cultivate the It is much under the influence of the tides, “(THACS) knew that the sugar industry was slowing down,” said Museum Director Karen Hart. manifest comfort in their arrangement, and bespeak the kind feelings of

arranged, possessing all the traits which manifests the aptitude of the Several bayous  lie contiguous, and the tide water passes Terrebonne. the soil carpeted with suitable grass for purposes of pasturage, interspersed rather unique in the location of this parish. which give an air of calmness and beauty.

The room also contains a copy printed specially for THACS of St. Martin’s best-known novel, “Madame Toussaint’s Wedding Day.” The novel portrays life in Louisiana bayou country in the 1930s.

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