Modeste,_Louisiana

Modeste, Louisiana

Modeste, Louisiana

Unincorporated community in Louisiana, United States

Modeste, Louisiana is an unincorporated village in Ascension, Parish, Louisiana.[1] The community is located along the Mississippi River on Louisiana Highway 405, north of the parish seat of Donaldsonville, between Hohen Solms (area of the Germania-Elise Plantation),[2] and Philadelphia Point, due south and across the river from Geismar.

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Modeste was the home of sugar cane plantation owner Leonard Julien (1910-1994) that invented a sugarcane-planting machine[3][4] Julien lived in the old Babin Place that he purchased from Dr. John Harvey Lowery.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "ASCENSION PARISH" (PDF). p. 45. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Germania-Elise-Plantation". Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Louisiana Black Inventors (River Road African American Museum: THE RRAAM)". Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Planting Cane the Easy Way". Johnson Publishing Company. March 1976. p. 94. Retrieved November 16, 2021.(Google books: Ebony magazine: March 1976)
  5. [5]
    "Demolition by chainsaw Babin/Africa Plantation". Retrieved November 16, 2021.


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