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Oil company files plan to build tanks, pipeline over historic slave cemeteries

Again and again, major projects have been planned at St. Rosalie, but none have come to fruition.
Author: By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator
Published: 8:34 PM CST February 10, 2021
Updated: 8:43 AM CST February 11, 2021
PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. Thick woods overtook the old St. Rosalie Plantation house more than 70 years ago.
But to the people of Ironton, a community of modest homes just south of those woods, St. Rosalie remains a powerful symbol of Black heritage in the heart of what used to be a bastion of White supremacy Plaquemines Parish.
And now, plans to build a new oil export facility on St. Rosalie are raising concerns about whether a key part of that heritage could be erased. ....

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