Colonel Leopold L. Armant Historical Marker

Leopold Armant died holding his regiment's flag at Mansfield on April 8, 1864, a colonel in his twenties. His family history has a second thread. Armant had a daughter, Philomène, with Marianne, an enslaved woman, as his father, grandfather and several uncles had with women of color. Philomène's youngest son, Hugh Pierre, was convicted after a 1936 shooting that killed a constable and was executed in the electric chair on January 30, 1943. His case reached the Supreme Court as Pierre v. Louisiana in 1939 and ended the systematic exclusion of Black citizens from Louisiana juries.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 5.6 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 15 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 — 15 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 — 16 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.

More markers nearby

• Vacherie — 0.7 mi
• Bourgeois Homeplace / Site Familial des Bourgeois — 1.1 mi
• "Le Petit Versailles" Historical Marker — 1.2 mi
• James Mather — 2.1 mi