Tezcuco Plantation

Tezcuco's longest afterlife began in 1994, when Kathe Hambrick opened the River Road African American Museum here to tell the story of African and African American people in Louisiana. The house burned in May 2002, and the owners chose not to rebuild, so Hambrick moved the museum to Donaldsonville. Motiva Petrochemicals owns the land, which is private property. Beside the road, the marker, a fence and a foundation are what remain of the house that first sheltered the museum.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 16 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 — 20 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 — 23 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 — 24 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

• Houmas House — 2.2 mi
• Bocage Plantation — 2.6 mi
• Ascension Of Our Lord Catholic Church — 4.4 mi
• Historic Donaldsonville — 4.6 mi