1975 Press Photo An empty raised cottage, desolate on the Bayou Lafourche

An empty raised cottage, desolate on the Bayou Lafourche River. To the tourist, Bayou Lafourche evokes the names of Louisiana's splendid antebellum plantation homes---Rienzi, Madewood, Rosedale. They are the spectacular eye-catchers that line the quiet waterway from Donaldsonville to Raceland in the heart of sugarcane country. Not so flamboyant, but equally remarkable, are the more casual roadside relics of Lafourche: the branches of a great dead oak choked in a field of cane; an empty raised cottage, desolate and stately; the bridge to a boat landing, sunk in stagnant bayou water; a house on the banks of the water.

Photo is dated 1975.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.