Francis Tillou Nicholls

The war took more of Francis Nicholls than it left him. A lieutenant colonel in the Eighth Louisiana Infantry, he lost his left arm at the first battle of Winchester in 1862 and a leg at the second battle of Fredericksburg in 1863. He had married Caroline Zilpha Guion in 1860, and they raised six children. After two terms as governor and years as chief justice, he died in Thibodaux on January 4, 1912. The homestead the marker names is gone, and a shopping plaza now stands on the site. The state tourist commission placed the marker in 1968.

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 — 2.5 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 — 5.4 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

• Confluence Of Bayous — steps away
• Leonidas Polk — 0.3 mi
• Lafourche Parish Court House — 0.5 mi
• St. Joseph Co-Cathedral — 0.5 mi