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Meeker Sugar Mill Gear

These solid iron gears were moved here from the old sugar refinery at Meeker, LA during the mid-1980s. The old sugar mill was built in 1912 and closed in 1981. It was a cooperative enterprise with...

These solid iron gears were moved here from the old sugar refinery at Meeker, LA during the mid-1980s. The old sugar mill was built in 1912 and closed in 1981. It was a cooperative enterprise with...

  • louisiana
  • sugar
  • industry
  • rapides parish

18th Century Style Sugar House

This building is a representation of a small eighteenth century sugar house employing the open-kettle process developed in the West Indies. It was built to show the style of old sugar houses...

This building is a representation of a small eighteenth century sugar house employing the open- kettle process developed in the West Indies. It was built to show the style of old sugar...

  • louisiana
  • sugar
  • commerce

Belmont Plantation

   Land was an original Spanish Grant to Francois Pellerin. Property then owned successively by the Sterling, Peebles and finally the Wyche families. This plantation has produced sugar since the...

   Land was an original Spanish Grant to Francois Pellerin. Property then owned successively by the Sterling, Peebles and finally the Wyche families. This plantation has produced sugar since the...

  • louisiana
  • plantation
  • sugar

Sugar House Monument

ERECTED IN RECOGNITION OF THE FIRST EFFORT MADE TO MANUFACTURE BEET SUGAR IN WESTERN AMERICA. WITH DAUNTLESS PERSEVERANCE THROUGH SEVERE HARDSHIPS THE MACHINERY WAS BROUGHT FROM LIVERPOOL, ENG.,...

ERECTED IN RECOGNITION OF THE FIRST EFFORT MADE TO MANUFACTURE BEET SUGAR IN WESTERN AMERICA. WITH DAUNTLESS PERSEVERANCE THROUGH SEVERE HARDSHIPS THE MACHINERY WAS BROUGHT FROM LIVERPOOL, ENG.,...

  • salt lake city
  • utah
  • sugar

Olivier Plantation

OLIVIER PLANTATION After starting business in 1898, Jules Olivier built this store in 1908 to serve his growing plantation. Mr. Olivier was commissioned the community's first postmaster in 1898,...

OLIVIER PLANTATION After starting business in 1898, Jules Olivier built this store in 1908 to serve his growing plantation. Mr. Olivier was commissioned the community's first postmaster in 1898,...

  • lousiana
  • plantation
  • postmaster
  • sugar

Oak and Pine Alley

OAK AND PINE ALLEY Charles Durand, Pre-Civil War sugar planter, credited with planting this alley. In legend a family wedding party rode down the alley canopied by giant spider webs dusted...

OAK AND PINE ALLEY Charles Durand, Pre-Civil War sugar planter, credited with planting this alley. In legend a family wedding party rode down the alley canopied by giant spider...

  • louisiana
  • planter
  • sugar
  • fontenette
  • spanish
  • durand
  • spider webs
  • gold
  • silver