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Company | Godchaux Sugars, Inc. |
Certificate Type | Class A Stock (orange) Class B Stock (olive) Preferred Stock (blue) |
Date Issued | July 1, 1953 (orange) July 2, 1953 (olive) June 25, 1953 (blue) |
Canceled | Yes |
Printer | American Bank Note Company |
Signatures | Machine printed |
Approximate Size |
12" (w) by 8" (h) |
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Authentic | Yes |
Additional Details | NA |
In 1845, Leon Godchaux founded the Leon Godchaux Clothing Company, a department store that anchored Canal Street in New Orleans for years to come. He then purchased the town of Bonnet Carre in St. John the Baptist Parish and changed its name to Reserve. The town of Reserve went on to become the home of the largest sugar refinery in the United States, fed by his twelve sugar cane plantations across southeast Louisiana. Godchaux–Reserve Plantation was one of his twelve plantations, located in Reserve, Louisiana and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
He achieved business success in his home state; according to the Hawaiinan Planter's Monthly, with "a first class crop and many outside offerings, there is no doubt that Raceland refinery will beat the record this season, thus placing Leon Godchaux at the head of the list of sugar producers of this State and give to him the title" 'the Sugar King of Louisiana.' By the time of his death in 1899, he owned 30,000 acres of sugar cane fields which annually produced 27 million pounds of refined white sugar. He was a multimillionaire thanks to the profits from his sugar empire and his department store in New Orleans."
In 1958, Godchaux Sugars was sold to the National Sugar and Refinery Company. Hunt Brothers purchased the refinery in 1975. It operated until 1985, when it doors closed forever.
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