Pugh Family

The Pugh brothers, William Whitmell Hill and Alexander Franklin, along with half brother Thomas, moved to Louisiana in 1818 from North Carolina and settled on Bayou Teche. In 1820 they moved to Bayou Lafourche. Alexander Franklin Pugh became part owner and manager of a number of sugar plantations in Assumption and Lafourche parishes, including Augustin, Bellevue, Boatner, and New Hope plantations. William Whitmell Hill Pugh founded Woodlawn plantation.

The Madewood Plantation House, which is now a National Historic Landmark in Napoleonville, Louisiana, was the manor house for the group of plantations owned by the family in the 1830s and 1840s. Eventually the family owned close to 10,000 acres of plantation land.

Sources : Louisiana State University Libraries. “Alexander F. Pugh Papers.” http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/p354.html (accessed June 8, 2010).

Louisiana Day Tours. “Madewood Plantation House.” http://www.louisianadaytours.com/aamadewood.htm (accessed June 8, 2010).

From the guide to the Pugh Family Papers 1935; 93-097; 97-029., 1807-1907, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)