Madewood Plantation House

Start with the clay and the trees. The bricks for Thomas Pugh's house were made on the plantation by the people he held in slavery, and the cypress timbers came from his own land. Pugh had gathered several Bayou Lafourche plantations into roughly 10,000 acres by the 1840s, and Henry Howard drew the Greek Revival house, built around 1845. A row of brick slave quarters stood east of it until the 1930s, and the mills are gone. One account traces the name to the wood milled here. Pugh died of yellow fever in 1852.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• E. D. White Historic Site — 8.6 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 — 14 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.
• Whitney Plantation — 22 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.

More markers nearby

• Napoleonville — 2.1 mi
• Christ Episcopal Church — 2.2 mi
• Battle Of Georgia Landing — 4.7 mi
• Valenzuela Dans La Fourche — 9.2 mi