Box 4

Copy prints of photographs of Acadia Plantation workers, harvesting scenes, boarding house and cabins (some duplicates). Typed and handwritten copies of "Acadia Plantation around 1900" by Richard C. Plater, Jr. (plantation history) and summary of interview with Beulah Coxon (neice of Stella Coxon Queen) with biographical information.

31 photographs of buildings, people, animals, and sugar harvesting scenes (some identified).

20 photographs predominantly featuring Acadia Plantation house, buildings, animals, people, grounds, oil well, sugarcane mill, and harvesting. Also includes photograph of St. Louis Plantation (Iberville Parish, La.) and Audubon Park oak tree (New Orleans, La.).

Two exterior photos of the house and two copies of "A Lafourche Sugar Plantation and Its Manor House" by Herbert Graf (history and description). Arialo Plantation (Lockport, La.) is also known as Bouverans Plantation and the Claudet House.

This series contains photographs, printed materials, reports, clippings, correspondence, and one artifact relating to historic sites in Lafourche Parish.

Two photographs of Lefort Cemetary (Leeville, La), two photographs of the front and back of unidentified country house (1939), one photograph of Little Pass Lighthouse by Milton Egle (1981), one photograph of Laurel Valley Plantation Office (Thibodaux, La.), three photographs of house on Blouin Plantation (St. Charles, La.), and three Raceland, La. photographs (including Tokio Dance Hall and the Raceland Theater).

A copy of a letter regarding the evaluation of the Lockport historic district and its limited chance of being listed as a historic district. One copy of description of properties and their local, state and national historical significance. One copy of survey information and hand drawn map with diescriptions of the town buildings.

Comprises background information on discovery of cannonball, correspondence with legal authorities, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Includes a two page paper by Martin L. Cortez titled "Bowie--Lived and Died in a 22 Year Span." One short narrative of Raceland as Presented to the Raceland Jaycees by Martin L. Cortez regarding Raceland as a branch from the Bowie Line. One transcript of a tape interview with Mr. Orland Blanchard discussing biographical information and his work in Bowie.

32 images, mostly reproductions of old photographs, with some identification. Photographs include scenes of buildings, mill, lumber yard, log pond, hymelia crevasse, Bowie Hotel, trailroad, people, traps, streets, and slaughter house. Martin L. Cortez is identified as the photographer for some of the photographs.