05/24/2026
The Point is names for the Houmas Indians. Edward Turner (1778 - 1860), Born and reared in Boston, married Elizabeth GRey, of Boston.
1804 - Capt. Edward Demaresque Turner presided at the raising of the start and striped over Natchitoches "I took possession of this post on the 26th" Turner reported to Claiborne.
1806 - Turner was a judge of the parish court of Natchitoches.
1808 - Edward Turner moved to Ascension Parish and entered into into partnership with Daniel Clark, and together they purchases a large planation on Houmas's Point on the Mississippi River just south of Donaldsonville. Turner was well known and his name appears side by side with Claiborne, Wilkinson, Wayne, Hampton, Clark, and Donaldson.
1811 - Daniel Clark sold his share of the partnership with Turner to General Wade Hampton (May 11, 1811)
1811 - The Louisiana Gazette on October 16, 1811 reports "It is with extreme sorrow we record the death of Edward D. Turner and his Lady at their farm opposite the Houmas. Mrs Turner died on the 12th, and Mr. Turner the 13th, leaving 7 children, the eldest which is not more than 14 years of age." A few days before, The Louisiana Courier, a New Orleans newspaper, reported a widespread epidemic of "Autumnal fever", a euphemism for Yellow Fever.
1812 - "Point Houmas", the Estate of Edward D.Turner is listed for sale in the Louisiana Gazzette, March 31, 1812. The Estate was purchased by General Wade Hampton.
1835 - General Wade Hampton dies.
1835 - Point Houmas is given to the heirs of Susan Hampton Manning, and the property is managed by their father, Governor John L. Manning (S. Carolina
1845-46 Sugar Report lists Mrs. Hampton and Preston & Manning producing 227 hogsheads of sugar. John Burnside acquired Point Houmas after the Civil War.
1868 - J. C. Cofield acquired Point Houmas. John C. Cofield, a native of North Carolina, and one of the wealthiest planters of Ascension Parish. He immigrated to Louisiana in 1837 and engaged in sugar planting. In 1868, J.C. Cofield married Miss Catherine T. Davis.
1892 John C. Cofield, one of the oldest sugar planters in Louisiana, died at Ocean Springs.
1920s - Cofield Point and the Point Houmas home became a bathing resort, where locals came to swim between the old and new levees. The Federal Government rented the land for construction of a military airport, which was used and then closed after World War II.
