Pictures 1 Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Thibodaux Louisiana
View of cane-cutting machine (1979)
Looking NW at water tower with mill pond and pump house in right center foreground; fuel oil storage tank in right background (1906)
Looking East at water tower showing corn grinding shed to the left and mule barn to the rear (1906)
Taken from top of water tower looking East showing mule barn and yard (1906)
Mule barn looking north with windpump in foreground. (1906)
Taken from top of water tower of fields west of mill complex. These were known as the wop fields because they were tended by Italian workers; corn grinding shed is the building in lower right of photograph and fuel oil storage tank is to the right (1906)
Looking SE showing blacksmith shop, mill pond and row of Creole style workers housing on other side of mill pond (1906)
Looking South over mill pond showing row of Creole workers houses in background (1906)
Taken from top of water tower looking South showing cooperage with workers village in background (1906)
Taken from top of water tower looking SW showing cooperage shed and row of workers houses (1906)
Taken at front of plantation along Bayou Lafourche showing steam powered pile driver driving piles for unidentified building foundation; building in background is Baptist church for black workers (1906)
Overseer Claiborne Toups house that burned down in 1973. (1906)
Wilson J. Lepine family posed in a cane cart with plantation cooks standing in foreground. It was customary for the family to attend a Thanksgiving dinner held in the Boarding House; Wilson Lepine is the man sitting in the cart on the left. (1906)
Sawmill maintained at rear of plantation. (1906)
Steam-powered canederrick loading sugar cane onto a barge on Bayou Lafourche. (1906)
Dredging machine that maintained the drainage ditches at Laurel Valley. (1906)
