Orange Grove

Who built Orange Grove depends on the record. The National Register nomination, working from conveyance records, credits Willard Warner, a native of Licking County, Ohio, between 1846 and 1848; he died in 1848 with an estate of $9,505.92, and his heirs soon sold to George Haydel. Wikipedia instead says the house was built in 1850 for sugar planter John C. Beatty, and that when Beatty died in 1857 the roughly 2,470-acre plantation was auctioned with the enslaved people on it. The nomination values it as a mid-century raised house with Greek Revival doors and windows.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 3.5 mi
  A 4,212-acre refuge of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp southwest of Houma, with a nature trail to a boardwalk and observation deck and mostly boat-only access.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 5.1 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.
• Laurel Valley Village — 14 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.
• 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.

More markers nearby

• Terrebonne Basin — 3.5 mi
• Sugar Row Plantations — 4.1 mi
• Southdown High School — 5.0 mi
• Southdown Plantation — 5.1 mi