With over fifty original structures remaining, Laurel Valley Village Plantation in Thibodaux is the largest surviving 19th & 20th century sugar plantation complex left in the U.S., & is still a working sugarcane farm. | Louisiana Public Broadcasting
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This is Laurel Valley Plantation, a former sugar plantation in southern Louisiana. Before emancipation, this site relied primarily on enslaved Black labor. The cabins still standing today were built to house enslaved people and their families who worked the fields, mills, and surrounding land. After the Civil War, the plantation continued operating and later employed a mix of free laborers, including local Creole and Acadian workers and, in later years, immigrant laborers. But these structures w
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At Laurel Valley Plantation in Thibodaux, Louisiana the historic cabins — the enslaved quarters — were built using local timber, especially cypress wood. Cypress was chosen because it’s naturally resistant to rot and insects, which helped these structures survive for over a century of Louisiana’s humid climate and many hurricanes.  Historically, the cabins fall into a couple of different types: the older Creole-style cabins from the mid-1800s and the shotgun-style tenant houses from the late 18
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Laurel Valley Plantation has had a long line of owners, but what makes it different from most Southern plantations is continuity. The land changed hands, but sugar production and labor control never truly stopped. The plantation began in the early 1800s under Étienne de Boré, a pivotal figure in Louisiana history. De Boré is often credited with proving granulated sugar could be produced commercially in Louisiana, helping turn sugar into one of the state’s most profitable and brutal industries. U
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