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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JDK_heros-tomb_Vacherie-LA.html
Veterans Memorial Monument
There have been only two persons
willing to die for you;
one died for your freedoms,
the other died for your soul
For those who fought for it,
freedom has a special taste,
the protected will never know
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JCI_bourgeois-homeplace-site-familial-des-bourgeois_Paulina-LA.html
Side 1
Bourgeois Homeplace
Among the first Acadian exiles to Louisiana, eleven Bourgeois families settled this area in 1765. Site of lands granted 1803 to Widow Jean Bourgeois and sons. Bourgeois descendants still live on-site.
Side 2
Si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JCH_convent_Convent-LA.html
Settled in 1722-1739 as Baron
Now parish seat St. James Parish
St. Michael's Church 1809
Site of St. Michael's Convent
Order of the Sacred Heart
1825-1932
Site of Jefferson College
1831-1931
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JCG_manresa-house-of-retreats_Convent-LA.html
Since 1931 The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) have operated a retreat house here for the spiritual development of the laity. The grounds and several of the buildings were the site and home of Jefferson College founded for the education of the youth of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JC2_notre-dame-de-la-paix_Vacherie-LA.html
Mission chapel and cemetery served by St. James Catholic Church from 1854. Became separate parish in 1864. Our Lad of Peace parish church completed 1900 and consecrated May 12, 1902.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JC1_colonel-leopold-l-armant_Vacherie-LA.html
Enlisted in Confederate Army, 1861; died heroically at Battle of Mansfield, 1864. Served in Yellow Jacket Bat. Com. of 18th Vol. Inf. Reg. and Mouton Brig. His ancestors were Jean Marie, Jean Baptiste, and Jean Seraphim Armant, St. James planters …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JC0_le-petit-versailles_Vacherie-LA.html
Once famed plantation home and gardens of Valcour Aime 1798-1867. Birthplace Marie Francois Alcee Fortier grandson and historian 1856-1914. 1768 La Vacherie of DeNoyan Brothers Bienville's Grandnephews of Blanpain, Ranson, Jacquelin 1740-50's
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JBZ_golden-grove-plantation_Gramercy-LA.html
On this site from 1817 to 1880 the Shepherd and Hooke families operated a large sugar plantation, part of which became Gramercy, LA, in 1895. The Greek Revival plantation house was lost to the river in 1902.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JBY_colonial-sugars-refinery_Gramercy-LA.html
Founded in 1895 by group of financiers from Gramercy Park, New York on a site called "Faubourg Lapin". First operated as a sugar mill to process sugar cane from Golden Grove Plantation. A refinery was built in 1902 to supply granulated sugar to th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JBX_lutcher_Lutcher-LA.html
Established 1891 by H.J. Lutcher & Moore Cypress Lumber Co. The town, incorporated in 1912, grew around the sawmill built on the plantation of Pierre Chenet, developer of world-famous Perique tobacco.