Modeste, Louisiana is an unincorporated village in
Ascension, Parish,
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
. The community is located along the
Mississippi River
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on
Louisiana Highway 405
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, north of the parish seat of
Donaldsonville
Donaldsonville (historically french: Lafourche-des-Chitimachas) is a city in, and the parish seat of Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located along the River Road of the west bank of the Mississippi River, it is a part of the Bat ...
, between
Hohen Solms (area of the Germania-Elise Plantation), 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 Julien lived in the old Babin Place that he purchased from
Dr. John Harvey Lowery.
References
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana
Populated places in Ark-La-Tex
Unincorporated communities in Ascension Parish, Louisiana
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