Richard Henry Allen

The fight over Richard Allen's estate reached the United States Supreme Court, and it was about sugar bounty money. Allen died in September 1894 with a cane crop standing at Rienzi and a federal bounty license already applied for. The executors collected $11,569.35 in 1895. His widow claimed it under the will, and the heirs said it was theirs. Louisiana's Supreme Court first sided with the heirs, then split it equally. In March 1899 the nation's high court reversed that, holding that the widow, through the executors, was the producer of the sugar.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — steps away
  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 — 2.2 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 5.7 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.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 15 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.

More markers nearby

• Silas T. Grisamore — steps away
• John Carlton Beatty — steps away
• George Seth Guion — steps away
• St. John's Historic Cemetery — steps away