Plantation token

[Rich in Houston]

Found this a few years back now. All I know about it is that it is from Louisiana. It says (??wood plantation) (Ellis) (not transferable) and 50 on the other side. Can anyone give me anything eles on it. Wish I could have dug it before the dozers got to it

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A History of Mining on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska - Grab it through Amazon!

[jeff of pa]

Cool Token Even in that Shape.

Plantation Token, May have Been A Pickers (Migrant Workers) Token.

To Be Turned in the End of the Day, Week, Whenever, To Collect Payment For Amount Picked.

50 May Have Meant 50 Bushell Picked

? ? Jeff

 

[Rich in Houston]

That gives me more to think about... I was thinking it was for 50 cents worth..

 

[jeff of pa]

That gives me more to think about... I was thinking it was for 50 cents worth..

It Could Rich.

Even IF it's a Pickers Token.

It All Depends on What they Were Paid For.

It May Have been Part Of Their Payment Also. that Was Only Cashable at the COMPANY STORE

 

[Red-Coat]

Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

Less damaged examples of this token reveal that the words before “Plantation” are “Mount Houmas”, which is a city in Ascension Parish in Louisiana:

Not to be confused with the historic sugar plantation in Burnside, Ascension Parish, Louisiana known as “The Houmas” or “Houmas House”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Houmas

On this old map of Ascension Parish, there is an area marked “Mount Houmas Refinery”, so presumably the plantation was growing sugar, although there doesn't seem to be an area speciifically mapped as the plantation itself. Ownership is marked as “H. Doyal”. Sometimes the names on these tokens are not the actual owners of the plantation but the owners of the store where the tokens were valid… ie it’s possible that L.A. & C.G. Ellis might have held the franchise to operate a company shop on the plantation (and it was common for such operators to service multiple locations).