City of Thibodaux / Ville de Thibodaux

Names did the shifting here. A trading post and village called Thibodeauxville stood on Bayou Lafourche by 1808, near where Bayou Terrebonne meets it, and by one account it was incorporated in 1830, with the name trimmed to Thibodeaux in 1838; the present spelling became official around 1900. On or about November 22, 1887, after a strike by an estimated 10,000 sugar workers, a Peace and Order Committee sealed the town and white vigilantes shot Black strikers and their families, killing at least 35 and perhaps 300 by historians' counts.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Laurel Valley Village — 1.0 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 — 1.4 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 — 6.9 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

• Rienzi Plantation House — 0.8 mi
• Laurel Valley — 1.0 mi
• Moses, Allen Chapel, Calvary Cemeteries — 1.1 mi
• St. Joseph Co-Cathedral — 1.1 mi