Cultural Resources Survey of Five Mississippi River Revetment Items.

This report describes the results of cultural Resources Surveys of five Mississippi River revetment construction rights-of-way during late July and August, 1984. All five of these revetments are located within the State of Louisiana, on the grounds of historically documented plantations of the nineteenth ad twentieth centuries. These plantations were engaged in the cultivation of rice and/or sugar cane. Activity areas and artifacts associated with historic plantations were encountered at several of the revetment areas. No prehistoric remains were recovered during the survey. The revetment survey areas consists of batture between the Mississippi and existing riverside levees. The revetments surveyed, in ascending order on the Mississippi River are: (1) Port Sulphur, in Plaquemines Parish; (2) Vacherie, in St. James Parish; (3) Romeville, in St. James Parish; (4) Marchand, in Ascension Parish; (5) New River Bend, in Iberville Parish. Keywords: Historic archeology; Sugar plantations; Rice cultivation.