Uncle Sam Plantation Historical Marker

This was one of the finest houses on the river, and the levee board tore it down. Samuel Fagot built the Greek Revival mansion between 1829 and 1843 and left one of the parish's largest estates in 1858, worked by enslaved people like every sugar plantation here. After the war the name Constancia gave way to Uncle Sam, for reasons nobody has proved. In March 1940, as demolition neared completion, a park service telegram asked for a delay and came too late. About 300,000 bricks went to restore Evergreen Plantation, and a chemical plant, now Mosaic's, covers the grounds.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 11 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 — 15 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 — 17 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 — 17 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

• The Settlement Of Freetown — 1.0 mi
• Malarcher House — 1.2 mi
• St. Jacques de Cabahanoce — 1.5 mi
• Site of First Acadian Settlers in Louisiana — 1.5 mi