A. Montz

Armand Montz Sr. started with a vegetable garden beside his father's at eighteen, leased land from Woodland Planting and Manufacturing, and made shallots his main cash crop. To keep produce fresh in rail cars he blew powdered ice over it, then built his own ice plant, whose wells later supplied the town; its generators sent electricity along lines from Garyville to St. Rose from 1923. He is credited with first freezing okra and corn on the cob for sale, and in wartime 352 German prisoners of war helped harvest his crops. He closed the frozen-food business in 1958.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 10.0 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Destrehan Plantation — 11 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Tickfaw State Park — 24 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 26 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.

More markers nearby

• 1811 Kid Ory Historic House — 0.3 mi
• Welcome To Main Street Park — 0.4 mi
• Woodland Plantation — 0.4 mi
• Laplace — 1.0 mi