Malarcher House

Malarcher is a name with two histories on this road. Louis Malarcher was a French aristocrat, a chevalier, who owned a large sugarcane plantation here. The surname also turns up in baseball: Dave Malarcher, called Gentleman Dave, a Negro leagues star, was born and is buried in St. James Parish. A baseball historian, citing a local author, traces his family to people enslaved on that estate. Biographies give his birthplace as Union or Whitehall, and his father worked a river plantation he called Charbony, perhaps a distortion of the old Choctaw place name.

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 — 16 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 — 18 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 — 18 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

• The Settlement Of Freetown — 0.8 mi
• Uncle Sam Plantation Historical Marker — 1.2 mi
• St. Jacques de Cabahanoce — 2.5 mi
• Site of First Acadian Settlers in Louisiana — 2.5 mi