The Hermitage Plantation
62 Miles from the Hotel Monteleone 
38308 Hwy 942
Darrow, LA 70725
Contact: Robert Judice
Phone (225) 473-1812
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Hours of Operation:
Drive by Only
Directions:
Head southwest on Royal St toward Iberville St | Continue onto St Charles Ave | Turn right at Poydras St | Merge onto I-10 W via the ramp on the left to Baton Rouge | Take exit 182 for LA-22 W toward Donaldsonville | Turn left at LA-22 W | Turn left at LA-44 S | Take the 1st right onto LA-44 S/LA-942 W/River Rd | Continue to follow LA-942 W/River Rd | Destination will be on the right
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Parking:
On site
“l’Hermitage,” as it is called in French, was originally a wedding present to the son of the prominent French Louisiana family of Emmanuel Marius Pons Bringier. The family gave a plantation, complete with manor house, as a wedding present to each child. Michel Doradou Bringier was the son who excepted this amazing gift when he married his fourteen year old wife Louise Elizabeth Aglae duBourg de Saint-Colombe in 1812. She wasn’t just a teenage girl but the niece of the Bishop of New Orleans.
During the War of 1812 Louise was to watch the plantation on her own as her husband joined with General Andrew Jackson to fight in the War. He returned in 1815. This was also the same time that the construction on the manor house was being finished. Michel named the house The Hermitage after General Jackson’s home in Tennessee. He did this in honor of his General.
Louise survived her husband by thirty years. She managed the plantation on her own even through the Civil War years. During the Civil War the house took a direct hit from a cannonball fired by the Federal troops. After the War Louise’s son, a Confederate army colonel, took over the plantation and with the help of some of the former slaves, who worked as free people, produced sugarcane on the land.
Today the Plantation is owned by the Judice family and is open by appointment only.
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July 15th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
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