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Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Historic Lafourche Parish Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00017
Scope and Contents

This collection dates from 1773 to 2006 and spans 7 linear feet. It consists of photographs, reports, printed materials, correspondence, meeting minutes, maps, blueprints, ephemera, and artifacts relating to the history and culture of Lafourche Parish in Louisiana. The collection is divided into the following series: General parish history, People, Events, Organizations, Education, Churches, Foodways, Historic sites, Transportation, and Business and industry.

Dates: 1773-2006, undated; Majority of material found in circa 1900-1990
Found in: Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections / Historic Lafourche Parish Collection

Lafourche Parish Courthouse Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00188
Scope and Contents This collection spans 135 linear feet and dates from 1773 to 1983. The bulk of the materials date from approximately 1820 to 1941. The collection comprises vital, court, land, tax, and immigration records of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. This includes records of birth, death, marriage, divorce, civil and criminal court cases, wills and estates, orphans and adoption, insolvency, lunacy, voters and elections, licenses, militias, oaths, schools, judgements and appeals, indenture, slave sales,...
Dates: 1773-1983; Majority of material found in 1820-1941
Found in: Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections / Lafourche Parish Courthouse Records

Laurel Grove Plantation Store Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00024
Scope and Contents

This collection contains records of the Laurel Grove Plantation Store between 1857 and 1953. Records include sales slips, inventories, receipts, ledgers, order books, account books, sales and credit journals, day books, cash journals, payrolls, and other documents.

Dates: 1857-1953
Found in: Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections / Laurel Grove Plantation Store Records

Laurel Valley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00180
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...
Dates: 1898-1979 and undated; Majority of material found in 1975-1977
Found in: Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections / Laurel Valley Collection

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
Found in: Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections / J. Wilson Lepine Collection of Laurel Valley and Melodia Plantation Records

Martin-Pugh Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00012
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of title searches, business records, ledger books, correspondence, maps, invoices, and genealogies of the Littlejohn, Whitmell-Bryan, and Pugh-Martin families.

Dates: 1806-1887
Found in: Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections / Martin-Pugh Family Collection

E. D. White Letter and related materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00160
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises a letter written by Edward Douglass White to Thomas Beary, along with related photocopied materials.

Dates: 1909
Found in: Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections / E. D. White Letter and related materials

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