Albania Plantation House

Albania Plantation is a plantation house located on the Bayou Teche in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana right outside of the town of Jeanerette, Louisiana. The home was built between 1837 and 1842 by Charles Alexandre Grevemberg, who operated a sugar plantation based on slave labor on the surrounding 6,500 acres (2, 600 ha). The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In the slave schedules of the 1850 census, Grevemberg was recorded as owning 183 slaves. In the 1860 slave schedules, Grevemberg's widow was listed as owning 211 slaves. After Charles Alexandre Grevemberg's death at Albania in 1851, his wife, Euphemie Fuselier (d. 1886), managed the plantation. Records of the sugar crops made in Louisiana 1859–1860 shows Mrs. Charles Grevemberg producing 475 hogsheads of sugar on the Bayou Teche. Samuel and Isaac Delgado acquired the property in 1885. Isaac Delgado bequeathed it to the City of New Orleans in order to establish the Delgado Vocational Institute to benefit the underprivileged. The city of New Orleans operated the sugar plantation through the Delgado-Albania Plantation Commission. This included a full scale sugar processing facility which was managed by the Allain family until 1931 and then the Munson family until 1957. Those families lived in the house where they raised their families while running the plantation business. In 1957 the City of New Orleans

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