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Southdown Plantation/Terrebonne Museum
The emergence of this house can be traced to the year 1859. It’s basically a ‘sugar manor house’; along with being a home to Terrebonne Museum of culture and history. Exhibits are inclusive of Minor family’s original ‘bedroom’ furniture and many other antique pieces; a culture and history room, a ‘Native Peoples’ room, a ‘Mardi Gras Room’, Boehm and Doughty porcelain birds, Thad St. martin literature collection, Charles Gilbert art collection, and restored cabin of 1880’s plantation worker.
Timings
This museum remains open from Tuesdays to Saturdays between 1000 and 1600 hrs. It remains closed on Sundays and Mondays, apart from 1st of January, Mardi Gras Shrove Tuesday, Good Friday, 4th of July, Thanksgiving Day, 25th of December, 24th of December, and 31st of December.
A Cajun Man’s Swamp Cruise
A conducted tour of swamps features nutria, alligators, raccoons, deer, rabbits, squirrels, possums, herons, and many other species.
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