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Melodia Sugar House (La.)

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

J. Wilson Lepine Collection of Laurel Valley and Melodia Plantation Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00025
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the business records of Laurel Valley and Melodia Plantations and owner J. Wilson Lepine. These records include correspondence, letter books, account books, payroll records, plantation diaries, invoices, and sugar mill records. Of particular interest are the thirteen plantation diaries which span the years 1903-1915 which give a day by day account of life and labor on a Louisiana sugar plantation in the early twentieth century.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1890-1926; 1867-1976

William Littlejohn Martin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00011
Scope and Contents

This collections consists of negatives, photographs, correpondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and tintypes.

Dates: 1811-1964

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Assumption Parish (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Carnivals -- Louisiana. 1
Cheniere Caminada (La.) 1
Church buildings -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
Civil war -- Louisiana. 1