Acadia Plantation

After the Bowies left, Acadia changed hands through debt. The Union Bank of Louisiana took it in 1842 after two failed crops. In 1845 a new owner bought it from the bank along with the crops and every enslaved person on it, no count recorded. It later passed to John Nelson and his son-in-law Andrew Jackson Donelson, then through mortgages, lawsuits and a tax seizure in 1871 and 1872 that Edward J. Gay paid off. Later owners joined three small houses into one Queen Anne house. Acadia was torn down in 2010 for a subdivision.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Laurel Valley Village — 0.7 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 1.6 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 7.1 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 15 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.

More markers nearby

• City of Thibodaux / Ville de Thibodaux — 0.2 mi
• Laurel Valley — 0.7 mi
• Rienzi Plantation House — 1.0 mi
• Moses, Allen Chapel, Calvary Cemeteries — 1.2 mi