(The tour sign for the Acadia Plantation oaks is located on the west shoulder of Highway 1, south of downtown Thibodaux, and in front of the John Folse Culinary Institute building at Nicholls State University, 918 LA Hwy. 1). Acadia Plantation once encompassed a much larger tract of land that includes parts of the Nicholls State…
In April 1934, Dr. Edwin Lewis Stephens, the first president of the Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette), published an article in the Louisiana Conservation Review titled, “I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing.” (A copy of this article can be found here.) From his orientation as a scholar and poet,…
(From Bayou Road [Hwy. 308] about one long city block past the intersection of St. Patrick Street, you will turn onto Lafourche Drive. Approximately ¼ mile on your left is 216 Lafourche Drive. The Gaubert Memorial Oak is located in the backyard of the home.) You can see the enormous oak’s limbs stretching over the top…
(St. John’s Episcopal Church is located at 718 Jackson Street just west of downtown Thibodaux.) The live oaks on the grounds and around the cemetery of the St. John’s Episcopal Church were planted around 1850 by Thomas Trader, rector of the church between 1854 and 1869. The land for the church and cemetery were donated…
Knights of Columbus Oaks – Hwy. 308 and St. Patrick Street (104 St. Patrick St.)
(A few short blocks north – or “up” the bayou – from the Rienzi Plantation oaks, you’ll see two aged oaks on your right as you pull up to the stoplight at the Canal Street bridge. They are growing in a small green space between the CVS drug store parking lot and the highway.) These…
(Rienzi Plantation home and historic oaks are located at 215 East Bayou Road [Remember, Highway 308 is called Bayou Road within the Thibodaux city limits]. Rienzi is a private residence and is not open for tours.) Rienzi Plantation Oaks—Two of the oaks on the grounds at Rienzi are registered with the Live Oak Society and one, named…
(St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church is located in the St. John Community at 2085 Hwy. 1, about 4 miles north of downtown Thibodaux. The church building is across LA Hwy. 1 from the St. John bridge. The church is about half-way to Labadieville and developed in much the same way as the St. Charles Borremeo Church south of…
(The E.D. White Historic Site is located on the west bank of Bayou Lafourche, 6.2 miles north of downtown Thibodaux at 2295 LA Hwy. 1. From Donaldsonville, it’s 27.5 miles south, down the bayou. All photographs and content ©William Guion, 2017. ) The E.D. White Historic Site is a historic jewel along Bayou Lafourche. It’s owned by…
How to take the self-guided tour…
