Cabahanoce Plantation

André Bienvenu Roman bought Cabahanoce soon after graduating from college in Baltimore, and the sugar estate carried him through two terms as governor. His brother Jacques built Oak Alley farther down the river, and both fortunes rested on enslaved labor. In January 1861 Roman was one of seventeen delegates who voted against secession, 113 to 17, yet the convention still sent him north to try for a peaceful separation. The war cost him his property and his wealth. He died in January 1866, collapsing on a New Orleans street just after accepting a city recorder's post.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 11 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 — 12 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 13 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 14 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.

More markers nearby

• Manresa House of Retreats — 0.9 mi
• Young Pilgrim Baptist Church — 1.6 mi
• Convent — 1.9 mi
• Judge Poché Plantation House Historical Marker — 2.1 mi