Judge Poché Plantation House Historical Marker

Felix Pierre Poché was born in St. James Parish in 1836 to a family of Acadian origin, studied law in Kentucky and Lafourche, and was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1859. Within three years he was a Confederate infantry captain. After the war he entered the state senate in 1866, sat in the 1879 constitutional convention, which restricted voting by freedmen, and helped found the American Bar Association in 1878. From 1880 to 1890 he served as senior associate justice of the reconstituted Louisiana Supreme Court. A second ten-year term never came.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 11 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 14 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 15 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 16 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.

More markers nearby

• Convent — steps away
• Young Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.5 mi
• Site of First Acadian Settlers in Louisiana — 0.8 mi
• St. Jacques de Cabahanoce — 0.9 mi