Tomb Of Henry Schuyler Thibodaux

Thibodaux's story starts with an exile. Born in Albany in 1769 to Acadian parents, he was orphaned young and raised by General Philip Schuyler. He reached Spanish Louisiana around 1790, received a land grant on Bayou Lafourche, and later served as a militia officer at the Battle of New Orleans and for twelve years as a state senator. As Senate president he became acting governor from November 15 to December 13, 1824, when Governor Thomas Robertson resigned to become a federal judge. The city of Thibodaux carries his name. He died in October 1827 while campaigning for governor.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 7.0 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 — 7.4 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 — 8.2 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.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 9.2 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.

More markers nearby

• Mysteries of the Wetlands — 0.3 mi
• Sugar Row Plantations — 3.0 mi
• Battle Of Lafourche Crossing — 6.1 mi
• Southdown High School — 6.6 mi