Thibodaux, Louisiana. We were told that if we turned off the highway and drove down a deserted road we would come to fields of sugar cane and a stand of old slave homes that had long been abandoned but still remained standing after all these years as an eerie reminder of times gone by. Sure enough, there they stood along the side of a canal. These two room buildings were called shotgun shacks. Further down the road, we checked out another planter's home called San Francisco. See the two tall pointed cisterns on either side. These collected rain water and one of them was rigged up to a gravity-fed shower just inside the house, one of the first of its kind.

"Shotgun Shack"

Sugar Cane

A Row of Shotgun Shacks along a canal

San Francisco Plantation House (cisterns at side of house)