Modeste, Louisiana
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  Modeste Location of Modeste in Louisiana | |
| Coordinates: 30°17′05″N 91°02′00″W / 30.28472°N 91.03333°WCoordinates: 30°17′05″N 91°02′00″W / 30.28472°N 91.03333°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Ascension |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 225 |
Modeste, Louisiana is an unincorporated village in Ascension, Parish, Louisiana.[1] The community is located along the Mississippi River on Louisiana Highway 405, north of the parish seat of Donaldsonville, between (area of the Germania-Elise Plantation),[2] and , due south and across the river from Geismar.
Modeste was the home of sugar cane plantation owner (1910-1994) that invented a sugarcane-planting machine[3][4] Julien lived in the old Babin Place that he purchased from Dr. John Harvey Lowery.[5]
References[]
- ^ "ASCENSION PARISH" (PDF). p. 45. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
- ^ "Germania-Elise-Plantation". Retrieved 2021-11-16.
- ^ "Louisiana Black Inventors (River Road African American Museum: THE RRAAM)". Retrieved 2021-11-16.
- ^ "Planting Cane the Easy Way". Johnson Publishing Company. March 1976. p. 94. Retrieved 2021-11-16.(Google books: Ebony magazine: March 1976)
- ^ "Demolition by chainsaw Babin/Africa Plantation". Retrieved 2021-11-16.
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- Unincorporated communities in Ascension Parish, Louisiana
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