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A For-Profit Research Organization with the Goals of Collecting, Digitizing, Archiving, and Disseminating items of historical significance to the South Louisiana Area.

A 1930s photo showing Harvey's Cypress Inn, owned by Harvey Rodrigue, Sr., in Chackbay, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. (...
06/17/2026

A 1930s photo showing Harvey's Cypress Inn, owned by Harvey Rodrigue, Sr., in Chackbay, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. (Photo courtesy of Paul Rodrigue to the great FB site "La Vacherie, La Louisiane")

A 6 October 1902 article from "The Crowley Signal" newspaper regarding the Southern Pacific train wreck on the Berwick B...
06/17/2026

A 6 October 1902 article from "The Crowley Signal" newspaper regarding the Southern Pacific train wreck on the Berwick Bay Bridge.

A photo of the 1902 train wreck at Berwick, Louisiana. (Photo sent to BHC by Dawn Percle)
06/17/2026

A photo of the 1902 train wreck at Berwick, Louisiana. (Photo sent to BHC by Dawn Percle)

Newspaper report dated 24 October 1878 concerning the ongoing Yellow Fever epidemic in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Loui...
06/17/2026

Newspaper report dated 24 October 1878 concerning the ongoing Yellow Fever epidemic in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The newspapers would print updated information about who was sick and who passed away from the dreaded disease. The Howard Association was a strategic nonprofit endeavor to assist with all aspects of dealing with the epidemic.

Historical Marker for Valenzuela in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. If you have Canary Islander or bayou Acadian ancestry...
06/08/2026

Historical Marker for Valenzuela in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. If you have Canary Islander or bayou Acadian ancestry, it is very likely your anrcestors had a connection to Valenzuela at some point in time.

Supreme Sugar Refinery in Assumption Parish, Louisiana.
06/08/2026

Supreme Sugar Refinery in Assumption Parish, Louisiana.

1873 photo of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Larose, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. (Photo courtesy of Iris Ar...
06/08/2026

1873 photo of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Larose, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. (Photo courtesy of Iris Arceneaux Trahan)

Circa 1904 photo outside St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Edgard, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. (Photo...
06/08/2026

Circa 1904 photo outside St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Edgard, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. (Photo courtesy of Buddy Chauvin)

1938 Thibodaux Firemen's Parade in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. (From the Lee Martin Collection at Nicholls ...
06/08/2026

1938 Thibodaux Firemen's Parade in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. (From the Lee Martin Collection at Nicholls State University Archives)

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