Rienzi Plantation House

The house is half the place. The 1860 census listed 306 enslaved people on the estate of Juan Ignacio de Egana, and in 1859 the plantation made 950 hogsheads of sugar, the most in Lafourche Parish. In fall 1887 Rienzi's laborers were among the first to strike in the movement organized by the Knights of Labor. During the Thibodaux massacre that followed, white vigilantes killed three people on the plantation grounds, according to the plantation's published history. The house is a private home, seen from the road.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 0.7 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 — 1.7 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 — 6.1 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

• St. Joseph Co-Cathedral — 0.6 mi
• Leonidas Polk — 0.7 mi
• Confluence Of Bayous — 0.7 mi
• City of Thibodaux / Ville de Thibodaux — 0.8 mi