Colonial Sugars Refinery

What survives of Colonial Sugars is still a sugar plant. The 1902 Char House filters liquid sugar through bone char to strip out the brown color. The company chapel dates from about 1910, and the 1929 Power House, designed by McKim, Mead and White, still generates electricity for the water plant and some residences. The successor refinery operates inside the Colonial Sugars Historic District, which the National Park Service has designated, and the mill and company housing are private and closed to visitors.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 1.9 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 — 19 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 — 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.
• Destrehan Plantation — 20 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.

More markers nearby

• Colonial Sugars Refinery — 0.3 mi
• Gramercy Historical Marker — 0.6 mi
• Lutcher — 1.0 mi
• Lutcher United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi