Modeste, Louisiana

Modeste
Unincorporated community
Modeste Location of Modeste in Louisiana
Coordinates: 30°10′16″N91°0′53″W / 30.17111°N 91.01472°W / 30.17111; -91.01472
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parish	Ascension
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	225

Modeste, Louisiana is an unincorporated village in Ascension, Parish, Louisiana. ^[1] The community is located along the Mississippi River on Louisiana Highway 405, north of the parish seat of Donaldsonville, between Hohen Solms (area of the Germania-Elise Plantation), ^[2] and Philadelphia Point, due south and across the river from Geismar.

Modeste was the home of sugar cane plantation owner Leonard Julien (1910-1994) that invented a sugarcane-planting machine ^{[3] [4]} Julien lived in the old Babin Place that he purchased from Dr. John Harvey Lowery. ^[5]

References

1. "ASCENSION PARISH" (PDF). p. 45. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
2. "Germania-Elise-Plantation" . Retrieved November 16, 2021.
3. "Louisiana Black Inventors (River Road African American Museum: THE RRAAM)" . Retrieved November 16, 2021.
4. "Planting Cane the Easy Way". Johnson Publishing Company. March 1976. p. 94. Retrieved November 16, 2021.(Google books: Ebony magazine: March 1976)
5. "Demolition by chainsaw Babin/Africa Plantation" . Retrieved November 16, 2021.