Modeste, Louisiana
Modeste, Louisiana is an unincorporated village in Ascension, Parish, Louisiana. 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), and Philadelphia Point, due south and across the river from Geismar.
Modeste was the home of sugar cane plantation owner Leonard Julien (1910-1994) that invented a sugarcane-planting machine Julien lived in the old Babin Place that he purchased from Dr. John Harvey Lowery.
References
- ^ "ASCENSION PARISH" (PDF). p. 45. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- ^ "Germania-Elise-Plantation". Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- ^ "Louisiana Black Inventors (River Road African American Museum: THE RRAAM)". Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- ^ "Planting Cane the Easy Way". Johnson Publishing Company. March 1976. p. 94. Retrieved November 16, 2021.(Google books: Ebony magazine: March 1976)
- ^ "Demolition by chainsaw Babin/Africa Plantation". Retrieved November 16, 2021.