Specific museum exhibits will include:

History of Sugar Cane Growing in Louisiana
A primary exhibit extensively documenting the history of the sugar can industry in Louisiana, from growing to refining and marketing.

Francois & Elisse Rillieux
The first owners of "Reserve". Free People of Color and entrepreneurs of the first order; whose cousin, Norbert, invented the multiple effect vacuum process which revolutionized the processing of sugar cane.

Women of Louisiana
Focusing on Sophie Andry Boudesquie, the widow of second owner Antoine, who struggled to maintain the plantation and raise a family during the depressed agricultural and economic period of Civil War Louisiana. This exhibit will detail the legal and social status of plantation, slave and middle class women in 19th century Louisiana.

Leon Godchaux
Third owner of the plantation, a Jewish immigrant who initiated centralized refining, turned the private plantation into a major public holding.

Free People of Color
This exhibit will emphasize their unique status in society, and their technological and economic contributions to antebellum Louisiana.

Jewish People in the River Region
A permanent exhibit on their impact on the Mississippi River Corridor, and thier social and cultural influences.

From time to time other exhibits will be installed with the cooperation of other museums both in America and abroad.

Francois & Elisse Rillieux
The first owners of "Reserve". Free People of Color and entrepreneurs of the first order; whose cousin, Norbert, invented the multiple effect vacuum process which revolutionized the processing of sugar cane.

The School will also have:

African-American Geneology_ Reserve plantation slave records, along with others, will be housed on site with capabilities to perform geneology studies.

A display of the restored Godchaux Sugar Train Engine #3 on the museum grounds.

A first class meeting facility capable of supporting catered events for use by business, industries and individuals who wish to utilize our facilities for their functions.