Bocage Plantation

A wedding gift made this place. Marius Pons Bringier gave the plantation to his eldest daughter Fanny, about 14 when she married Christophe Colomb, a Parisian bon vivant roughly twenty years older. The estate dates to January 1801, five years after Etienne de Bore showed sugar could pay in south Louisiana. The first raised Creole house burned, and the house standing now was completed in 1837, with the design credited to James H. Dakin, though sources vary on how certain that is. Two doctors rescued the neglected house in 1941, and it took paying guests until 2015.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 19 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 21 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.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 22 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 24 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.

More markers nearby

• Houmas House — 1.7 mi
• Ascension Of Our Lord Catholic Church — 2.2 mi
• Historic Donaldsonville — 2.3 mi
• Bayou Lafourche — 2.4 mi