Ascension County Louisiana Archives News.....Peytavin - The Peytavin Plantation Sold - November 29, 1919
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Source: The Donaldsonville Chief (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
November 29, 1919, image 5


Peytavin Changes Hands.

The Peytavin plantation, situated immediately below the town of Donaldsonville, 
for many years the property of the Lemann Company but recently owned by a 
corporation known as the Peytavin Company, Inc., has changed hands; the 
purchasers being Omer Robert, Amede Robert and Wallace Robert, brothers. The 
price and consideration is fixed at $80,000 and the sale will be finally 
consummated in January. The sale does not include the mules, implements and 
equipment. This plantation is one of the oldest and best known in Louisiana, and 
years ago, it was provided with a good mill and was operated as a sugar 
plantation and factory. The place contains 1381.42 acres of land, nearly all of 
which is open and cultivable, and the soil is adapted to the growing of sugar 
cane, rice and corn. It is also provided with one large magnificent residence, 
and several smaller dwelling houses, and a number of cabins for laborers, and 
all barns, sheds, etc., necessary on an up-to-date farm. Its location adjoining 
Donaldsonville, is one of the best in the state.Its close proximity to the town 
enables it to enjoy the benefits and conveniences of a city, including the 
shipping facilities by both rail and water, without the added burden of city 
taxes, and for that reason makes it an ideal place of residence as well as 
plantation.

The new purchasers are rice planters, in which industry they have been engaged 
very successfully for many years. For the past few years they have cropped on 
the Riverton plantation of the Miles Company, above Burnside, where they have 
reaped rich harvests of rice. It is their intention to plant the greater part of 
their new plantation in rice, for the cultivation of which they are thoroughly 
equipped.

The Chief congratulates Messrs. Robert Bros. upon their purchase of the 
Peytavin, and hope that their planting efforts on this place will be crowned 
with the same splendid success which rewarded their labors on other farms in the 
past.



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