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Official Website
The parish was formed in 1807 and was named after the Bayou Lafourche. City buildings have been featured in television and movies, such as in Fletch Lives, due to its architecture and rich history.
Long a center of sugar cane plantations and sugar production, in November 1887 the parish was the site of the Thibodaux Massacre. After state militia were used to suppress a massive Knights of Labor strike involving 10,000 workers in four parishes, many blacks retreated to Thibodaux. Local paramilitary forces attacked the men and their families, killing an estimated 50 people, and hundreds more were missing, wounded, and presumed dead in one of the deadliest incidents of labor suppression and racial terrorism.
Adjacent Parishes
- Jefferson Parish
- Assumption Parish
- St. James Parish
- Terrebonne Parish
- St. John the Baptist Parish
- St. Charles Parish
Cities, Towns & Communities
- Bayou Blue
- Bayou Country Club
- Chackbay
- Choctaw
- Cut Off
- Des Allemands
- Galliano
- Gheens
- Golden Meadow
- Kraemer
- Lafourche Crossing
- Larose
- Leeville
- Lockport
- Lockport Heights
- Mathews
- Port Fourchon
- Raceland
- Thibodaux (Parish Seat)
Cemeteries
Links
Jean Lafitte National Park (part)
National Register of Historic Places
