The Louisiana Sugar & Rice Exchange, 1884-1963
Feb 11, 2018 · It was in this era, 1870s-1890s, that New Orleans’ sugar landing developed into a bona fide Sugar District, with steel-frame refineries, hundred-foot smokestacks, and distinctive steel sheds amid steam trains, steamboats and teams of dockworkers.
What happened to the old New Orleans Sugar Exchange?
Jan 26, 2024 · Opened on June 3, 1884, the Sugar Exchange building — later known as the Sugar and Rice Exchange — would remain at the center of the region’s sugar trade until 1940 when, amid shifting ...
It was in this era, 1870s-1890s, that New Orleans’ sugar landing developed into a bona fide Sugar District, with steel-frame refineries, hun-dred-foot smokestacks, and distinctive steel sheds amid steam trains, steamboats and teams of dockworkers.
Blake Pontchartrain: What happened to the Sugar Exchange?
Sep 14, 2015 · In 1883, the district had a new headquarters — a beautiful Beaux Arts building called the Louisiana Sugar and Rice Exchange near Bienville and North Front streets. It was designed by architect...
Historically, sugar plantations first appeared in the vicinity of New Orleans. Plantation agriculture in the area had been organized early in the 1730's with tobacco and indigo concessions. These formed a plantation base upon which sugarcane could be commercially pro duced.
Sugar Granulation on the Boré Plantation - New Orleans Historical
Morin innovated a new sugar-making process and produced the first granulated sugar for commercial sale in Louisiana through the Boré Plantation. [5] In 1796, Morin and Boré’s first sugar crop yielded twelve-thousand dollars profit, which is …
The bittersweet tale of a domed business 'palace' that once was …
Jul 20, 2022 · Today, precious few traces of the old sugar district can be found. Among them, right around the Bienville Station streetcar stop — squeezed between the old exchange site and the riverfront...
1751 - Jesuits plant sugar in New Orleans - Old Arabi Sugar
The Jesuits first planted sugar cane in 1751 on their plantation, which encompassed much of the Central Business District of New Orleans. The early sugar crops produced sugar in the traditional method known as the “Jamaica Train”.
The Boré Plantation: Sugar Production and its Impact on Slavery in …
On the Boré Plantation, Morin innovated a new process that allowed for sugar granulation. This innovation led not only to the increased wealth and status of Étienne de Boré, but also jump-started the Southern Louisiana sugar industry.
No Sugar-Coating: The Plantation History of Audubon Park
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the land that is now Audubon Park was the Boré Plantation and the Foucher Plantation. Popular histories often credit Étienne de Boré, an enslaver and the first mayor of New Orleans, with establishing the sugar industry in …