Graugnard House

Terre Haute Plantation survives mostly on paper. Leon Graugnard, a French immigrant from Basses-Alpes, born in 1855 and dead in 1938, bought it in 1904, and his family held it until 1972. Nicholls State University keeps the plantation records for 1898 to 1969, 55 and a half linear feet of cane weight books, grinding ledgers, sugar sales, payrolls, time books, teamsters' books and cutters' books. Together they follow a crop from field to mill to buyer and record the labor behind every ton, which is the history the surviving house does not show.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 3.8 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.
• Destrehan Plantation — 15 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 22 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.
• Tickfaw State Park — 23 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.

More markers nearby

• Saint Hubert Parish — 1.8 mi
• Maurin's Theater — 1.9 mi
• Caroline Deslonde Beauregard — 1.9 mi
• Luis Bethancourt — 1.9 mi