Historic Cinclare Plantation

Cinclare is a sugar town that outlived its crop. Marengo Plantation, assembled in 1855 and worked by enslaved people, was bought in 1878 by a Laws who renamed it. The 210-foot smokestack lettered CINCLARE dates to about 1950, when the place was the Cinclare Central Factory. Worker cottages built in 1913, probably Aladdin kit houses, still stand, and a seasonal dormitory for the fall cracking season has been demolished. A nineteenth-century mule barn is the only known survivor of its type in the state. The mill closed in 2005; local cane now goes to Alma, in Pointe Coupee Parish.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State Capitol — 4.4 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 4.9 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 5.0 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 7.2 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Indian Mounds — 3.4 mi
• John Archer Lejeune — 4.2 mi
• School for the Deaf — 4.2 mi
• The Founding of "Red Stick" — 4.3 mi