Sugarland

In August of 1888, an Illinois machinist and his wife migrated to South Louisiana to begin their epochal legacy.

Photo by Denis Chick on Unsplash

Sweet, sweet Iberville, Henry mused while scanning the landscape through the open windows of the jostling steam train. From snowy white cotton fields, the flat terrain transitioned to endless fields of giant green sugarcane stalks dwarfing the fieldworkers…