Laurel Valley Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises documents, photographs, and audio recordings relating to Laurel Valley Plantation in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The materials relate predominantly to efforts made between 1970 and 1979 to document and preserve the history and physical buildings of the plantation. These include correspondence, meeting minutes and publicity, photographs, grant applications, sketches, notes, and research materials. Also included in the collection are a set of sugar cane grinding records from the Laurel Valley Plantations sugar factory dating from 1898 to 1925.
Dates
- 1898-1979 and undated
- Majority of material found in 1975-1977
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Physical rights are retained by Nicholls State University. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.
Extent
9 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Sensitive Materials Statement
This collection may contain material(s) with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Ellender Memorial Library and Nicholls State University assume no responsibility.
- Community organization -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish
- Lafourche American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
- Laurel Valley Plantation (Thibodaux, La.)
- Laurel Valley Sugar Refinery (Thibodaux, La.)
- Nicholls State University
- Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux.
- Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish.
- Sugarcane -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections Repository
Ellender Memorial Library
Nicholls State University
906 E 1st St.
Thibodaux Louisiana 70310 USA
985-448-4621
clifton.theriot@nicholls.edu