Clotilda Plantation

The Barkers behind this plantation had known ruin. Benjamin Barker came from New York to Bayou Lafourche in the late 1830s, and his son Charles's biography says the Panic of 1837 cost him his fortune after he co-signed loans for bank officials. Charles lost his right leg at Mansfield with the 18th Louisiana Infantry, then ran a school and sat in the legislature from 1870. Another son, Frank, kept a commission house in New Orleans, where their brother Richard was working when he died of yellow fever in 1878.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 13 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 17 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.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 18 mi
  A 4,212-acre refuge of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp southwest of Houma, with a nature trail to a boardwalk and observation deck and mostly boat-only access.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 19 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

• Lockport — 1.7 mi
• First American Casualty Of WW II — 3.2 mi
• NAS Houma (LTA) — 9.7 mi
• Residence Plantation — 10 mi