Colonial Sugars Refinery

The town was laid out by rank. Executive Row held the plant manager's house, home from 1928 to 1956 to George P. Meade, co-author of the Cane Sugar Handbook, and Workers' Row, on Fifth Avenue, has cottages from the 1910s. Between them the company provided a chapel, schools, a store and recreation. The site began as Faubourg Lapin, and its first mill ground cane from Golden Grove Plantation, whose land later became the town. All of it is private and not open to visitors.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 2.2 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 — 21 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 — 1.0 mi