Felix Grundy Winder

Felix Winder's family built a copy of Andrew Jackson's home in the cane fields. Winder's mother hired an architect named Evens in 1859 and asked for a house modeled on the Hermitage in Nashville, where she had grown up. Ducros, a Greek Revival mansion near Schriever, was finished in 1860. In the war its fields served as a camp for both armies. Texas Rangers raised a Bonnie Blue flag on the house, and Union general Godfrey Weitzel saved it from fire while the outbuildings burned. It joined the National Register in 1985.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — steps away
  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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 2.2 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 5.7 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

• Whitmell Pugh Martin — steps away
• Marcus Pennington Zills — steps away
• St. John's Historic Cemetery — steps away
• John Carlton Beatty — steps away