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Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
38historic places
—earliest paper
1807formed
97,557pop. 2020
15cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 38 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Thibodaux, Lockport, Kraemer.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Louisiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Lafourche titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

27 of 38 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

38 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Acadia PlantationThibodauxDistrict1987
Bank of Lafourche BuildingThibodauxBuilding1986
Bank of LockportLockportBuilding1995
Bayou Boeuf Elementary SchoolThibodauxBuilding2004
Bayou Boeuf SettlementKraemerDistrict2018
Bouverans Plantation HouseLockportBuilding1983
Breaux HouseThibodauxBuilding1986
Building at 108 Green StreetThibodauxBuilding1986
Chanticleer Gift ShopThibodauxBuilding1986
Chatchie Plantation HouseThibodauxBuilding1982
Citizens Bank of LafourcheThibodauxBuilding1986
Dansereau HouseThibodauxBuilding1978
Frost HouseThibodauxBuilding2008
Golden Meadow High SchoolGolden MeadowBuilding1998
Grand TheatreThibodauxBuilding1986
House at 816 Jackson StreetThibodauxBuilding2009
Lafourche Parish CourthouseThibodauxBuilding1979
Lamartina BuildingThibodauxBuilding1986
Laurel Valley Sugar PlantationThibodauxDistrict1978
Ledet HouseRaclandBuilding1997
Lefort HouseThibodauxBuilding2008
McCulla HouseThibodauxBuilding1986
Merchants and Planters BankLockportBuilding1995
Nicholls, Francis T., Junior College Main BuildingThibodauxBuilding1999
Peltier HouseThibodauxBuilding1986
Peltier, Harvey Andrew, Sr., HouseThibodauxBuilding2020
Percy-Lobdell BuildingThibodauxBuilding1986
Rienzi Plantation HouseThibodauxBuilding1980
Riviere BuildingThibodauxBuilding1986
Riviere HouseThibodauxBuilding1986
Robichaux HouseThibodauxBuilding1986
S.S. HALO, shipwreck and remainsPort FourchonSite2017
Saint Joseph's Co-Cathedral and RectoryThibodauxBuilding1986
St. John's Episcopal Church and CemeteryThibodauxBuilding1977
Thibodaux, Jean Baptiste, HouseRacelandBuilding1982
Toups, Zephirin, Sr., HouseThibodauxBuilding1993
Vives HouseThibodauxBuilding2009
White, Edward Douglass, House NHLThibodauxBuilding1976

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lafourche was formed in 1807 (1807-04-14) from unknown / original county.

LAFOURCHE INTERIOR (now LAFOURCHE) Parish created within Lafourche County. Creation of parishes did not abolish 12 counties established on 10 Apr 1805. Counties existed for taxing & electoral purposes, parishes took over jurisdiction of judicial matters.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lafourche Parish population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

98k50k1,9951810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,9953,7557,30314,04419,11328,88230,34438,61542,20955,38182,48389,97497,557

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

15 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed
NameLatLon
Alombro Cemetery29.40538-90.08322
Bayou Heron Graveyard29.90581-90.76196
Bell Baptist Church Cemetery29.73518-90.68696
Cheramie Cemetery29.44488-90.30039
Hadley Cemetery29.70945-90.57305
Hebert Cemetery29.41374-90.28137
New Fountain Cemetery29.64979-90.53719
New Mount Zion Baptist Cemetery29.55933-90.34997
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Cemetery29.39521-90.27268
Sacred Heart Cemetery / Mausoleum29.51376-90.3343
Saint Johns Cemetery29.79381-90.8237
Saint Mary's Nativity Cemetery29.73323-90.62841
Surgney Cemetery29.36601-90.25861
Third Zion Cemetery29.74464-90.68574
Williams Cemetery29.40294-90.2751
Historical populated places — 4 of 4
NameLatLon
Faleau29.39217-90.3473
New Hope29.7066-90.55842
Ravenwood29.66132-90.52731
Utopia29.74216-90.56259

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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