Colonist Nicholas Provost acquired property extending from the present-day experimental farm to the St. Mary Parish line. He engaged in sugar cultivation, based on the labor of enslaved Americans and African Americans, until his death in 1816.
Colonist Nicholas Provost acquired .property extending from the ,present-day experimental farm to the St. Mary Parish line He engaged in sugar cultivation based on the labor of enslaved Americans and African Americans, until his death in 1816.