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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MGW_sandbar-plantation-house_Port-Allen-LA.html
Built c1837 for Dr. Thomas Philander and Marie Aureline Vaughan as a wedding gift. Purchased in 1925 by Chas. H. Dameron, who introduced the first steam shovel to levee construction. Mrs. Ethel Claiborne "Puffy" Dameron residence during …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MGV_historic-cinclare-plantation_Port-Allen-LA.html
Formerly Marengo Plantation, Cinclare was purchased by James H. Laws in 1878. With its own currency, work animals, plantation store, staff housing, and railroad, it was a self-sufficient sugar mill "company town."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MGU_the-back-brusly-oak_Brusly-LA.html
Member Louisiana Live Oak Society. Estimated to be over 330 years old in the Bicentennial Year of 1976. Community gathering place for many years.
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Back Brusly Oak preservation project
2004
made possible by a cooperative endeavor
bet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MG5_charles-p-adams_Brusly-LA.html
July 21, 1873 - June 27, 1961Charles Philip Adams, Brusly native and Tuskegee Institute graduate, followed Booker T. Washington's advice to travel to North Louisiana to develop a school. On November 1, 1901, Adams founded and opened the school in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M12_molaisonville-st-james-square_Brusly-LA.html
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Molaisonville
Jacques Molaison arrived in Louisiana with his family in 1785, settling on a Spanish land grant north of this site. He established a mercantile business and the community that grew around it became known as Molaisonville…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LLX_st-john-the-baptist-catholic-cemetery_Brusly-LA.html
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West Baton Rouge conveyance records reveal that on June 28, 1833, Jean Baptiste Hebert donated land for use as a cemetery for the congregation of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. With Hebert's permission, the tract had already been …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LJT_antonia-plantation_Port-Allen-LA.html
A typical raised Creole Cottage, Antonia was an early 1800's working sugar plantation. Established through a 1793 Spanish Land Grant claimed by Pierre Lebert. Zephirin Blanchard married Lebert's daughter Elsie and expanded the plantation. Blanchar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LJS_addis-museum_Addis-LA.html
Chartered in 1919, the Bank of Addis was constructed the following year on land purchased from William Gassie, Jr., one of the original bank shareholders. in 1925 the Bank became a branch of the Port Allen Bank and Trust Company. Following the Sto…