Image: Ruined mill at the Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation

Description: Ruined sugar mill on the grounds of the Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, located off Louisiana Highway 308 northeast of Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. Built circa 1840, it was abandoned after being destroyed by Hurricane Betsy in 1965. The remnants of the plantation compose a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Title: Ruined mill at the Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division HAER: LA,29-THIB,1A-15
Author: Jet Lowe
Permission: This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information. Creator: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record. Survey number HAER LA-1-A-15 Source: U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, "Built in America" Collection. Copyright: "The original measured drawings and most of the photographs and data pages in HABS/HAER/HALS were created for the U.S. Government and are considered to be in the public domain."
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