Box 1

Newspaper clippings and copies of clippings of the "South Lafourche: It's Past and It's People" feature written by Norris H. Rousse and published in The South Lafourche Gazette. The column discusses people, families, and local history in the South Lafourche area.

Copy of Dr. Cooper's reminiscences from 1861 of the 8th Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, and a copy of pages 106-107 from Vermont History Vol. XXXI, No. 2 1963.

Clippings, notes, ephemera, certificates, letters, and minutes elate to relating to the activities of the Lafourche Parish Chapter of the American Red Cross, including membership, knitting and medical supply drives, fundraising, Louisiana State Conventions of Red Cross chapters, organizational history and recordkeeping, disaster response, and local meetings.

Clippings, notes, and publications relating to Lafourche Parish. This includes information on its history, geography, natural resources, education, transportation, religion, goverment, businesses, and industries.

Survey of Serigny Family Cemetary (Golden Meadow, La.) including members of the Houma Nation, partial list of people buried in the Williams Cemetary (Golden Meadow, La.), and partial list of people buried in the Hebert-Terrebonne Cemetery (Galliano, La.).

Includes copies of information regarding geneology, how the family came to Louisiana, baptismal certificates in both French and Spanish, property inheritance in France, family history of the French LeBlancs, surveyed documents, Ledet family history and geneology, early Acadians and Trahian, and one military pass from the Civil War. The documents are all copies and some are illegible. Some of the French and Spanish documents include translations.

Contains document titled "Land Office South Eastern District of Louisiana" by Louis Martin regarding land claims (1848), typed letter from Edward Douglas White regarding a refinery (1901), World War II ration book owned by Lydia Alice Toups (1942), and cards and envelopes featuring Louisiana scenes drawn by Dolores Hebert Legendre.

Four photographs featuring an unidentified man, unidentified child labeled as a relative of Prejean Family, the Bowie Lumber Company Baseball team with manager Eugene Hunter Payne, and the wife of Eugene H. Payne with her son.

Includes a flyer advertising a July 4th Bar-B-Que and Celebration on Rosella Plantation, La Vie Lafourchaise programs (1974, 1976, and 1978), and one sticker and two Lafourche Parish Industries brochures from the Industry Exhibit at the Louisiana Worlds Fair (1984). Lafourche Day at the Louisiana World Exposition was held on June 16, 1984.

Six photographs showing the 1904 flood (some are duplicates). Nine photographs of the 1927 flood waters in Brule Guillot. The 1927 photographs include members of the Roth family and others.