Slave Plantation In Louisiana Laurel Valley. But the church and cemetery, which sit several miles from the plantation house, are not on the register. Visit the general store and view antique tools used for harvesting sugar cane.
All of these buildings line laurel valley road, 1.7 miles off louisiana 308. During its largest period of growth, laurel valley plantation encompassed over fifty thousand acres of land, fifty to sixty adjacent buildings and a workforce of approximately one hundred and forty slaves. The destrehan plantation is nestled beneath canopies of ancient oak trees along the historic river road and holds a fascinating history.
Laurel valley is the largest surviving 19th and 20th century sugar plantation and features miles of sugarcane fields, the original slave cabins, schoolhouse, and church.
Slave quarters at the laurel valley sugar plantation near thibodaux, louisiana, was used as a set for the feature film ray, in 2004. This former slave plantation is rumored to be haunted by the former slaves that were once housed here. Gradually buying out the farms of smaller planters in the vicinity, tucker increased laurel valley's total acreage from 815 to nearly 5,000 by the early 1840's. Because it is still a functioning farm where sugarcane is grown.