Sugar Row Plantations

Before 1865, enslaved African Americans grew the cane that paid for this row, and by 1851 Terrebonne had 110 plantations. Ardoyne's Gothic Revival house was designed by New Orleans architect John Williams for John Dalton Shaffer and built from 1890 to 1894 by workers of German, Italian and African descent, who later made up much of the labor on the remaining land. The Shaffer family, in Terrebonne since 1828, has owned Ardoyne for six generations. Magnolia's Greek Revival house is one of six left in the parish, and part of 12 Years a Slave was filmed there.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 6.4 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.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 7.2 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 9.8 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 — 10 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

• Mysteries of the Wetlands — 2.7 mi
• Tomb Of Henry Schuyler Thibodaux — 3.0 mi
• Orange Grove — 4.1 mi
• Southdown High School — 6.0 mi