Tags: #culture of sugar cane #german influence #rost home colony #plantations to petroleum east bank

Map of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Bayou Manchac in 1731 Reproduced by Helmut Blume, Schriften des Geographischen Instituts der Universität...

Jean-Nöel Destrehan. 1754-1823. (Photo courtesy of Destrehan Plantation) Tags: #culture of sugar cane #destrehan #1811 slave revolt #statehood #statehood ...

Jean-Noël d’Estréhan de Beaupre (1754-1823). (Source: Louisiana Portraits, courtesy of Marguerite Larue de la Houssaye) Tags: #culture of sugar cane...

Home of M. O. LaBranche. La Branche Plantation. The German Zweig family surname was Gallicized to LaBranche. Octave was the son of Alexandre LaBranche. He was...

Judge Jean-Louis LaBranche Plantation. Judge Jean-Louis LaBranche was born in 1805 in St. Charles Parish. A major crevasse occurred on May 8, 1858, at this...

Estate of Jean Baptist LaBranche. After Widow J. B. LaBranche (nee Marie Trépagnier) died in 1868, her three sons, Judge Jean-Louis, Euphemond, and Cyprien...