Author: vonmack

(The Bouverans Plantation Oak is located on the west bank of Bayou Lafourche on Highway 1 about 1.5 miles south of Lockport. In Lockport, Highway 1 turns away from the bayou, makes a large loop around the town, and then rejoins the bayou near the southern city limits of Lockport.) The Bouverans Oak is registered with…

(The Clotilda Plantation Oaks are located at 5753 LA-308, Matthews, LA. They are approximately 5.5 miles south of the Raceland intersection of Hwy. 182 and Hwy. 308.) There are 10 live oaks on the property of Clotilda Plantation that have been registered with the Live Oak Society. The trees range in size 10 feet 4 inches…

(The Jamie Oak is located about a mile south of downtown Thibodaux at 567 Highway 308. On three or four neighboring properties north of the Jamie Oak are a number of live oaks that are in the same general age range – between 150 to 250 years of age.) The Jamie Oak was registered with the…

(The Henry Oak is located at 3648 LA Hwy. 1, just about 1/4 mile from downtown Raceland on the west side of Hwy. 1– It’s hard to miss. It grows near the property line between two private homes.) The Henry Oak is registered with the Live Oak Society (#7715) by Madelyn and Victor Tedesco and…

(The St. Romain Oak is located at 109 Myrtle Drive in Raceland, about 1/2 mile north of downtown Raceland. Myrtle Drive is and on the west side of LA Hwy. 1.  The old oak is just a hundred feet or so down the street and on your left.)  The St. Romain Oak is named after Martin St. Romain,…

The double row of oaks in front of the Blouin house were probably planted in the late 1800s by Zephirin Toups, Jr. (son of Zephirin Toups, Sr., who lived about ½ mile north, up the bayou from this location). Zephirin Jr. purchased the property in 1874 from Alcide Chauvin who became his father-in-law when he…

(Nicholls State University is located at 906 East Highway 1 [or East First St]. The oaks on the tour can be viewed more closely by making a slow driving loop through campus—turn off Hwy. 1 onto Acadia Drive, then right on Glenwood Drive behind the administrative offices, then right again and out on Madewood Drive.) There are…

(The Melodia Plantation Oaks are located on the east side of LA Hwy. 308 (not the bayou side), approximately 1/4 mile past the Webre Oaks, approximately 6.25 miles south of downtown Thibodaux, and 9 miles north of Raceland.  You are still within the community of St. Charles.) The Melodia Oaks are probably the least beautiful trees on…

(The Zephirin Toups, Sr. Oaks are located on an unmarked property approximately at 2115 LA. Highway 308. This is a group of 5-6 oaks set back in a line, about 200 feet from the highway with sugarcane fields behind.  The Joachim Oak and Telesphore Oaks are on the property immediately next door or south of these oaks.)…