[3] City buildings have been featured in television and movies, such as in Fletch Lives, due to its architecture and rich history.

After state militia were used to suppress a massive Knights of Labor strike involving 10,000 workers in four parishes, many African Americans retreated to Thibodaux.

Local paramilitary forces attacked the men and their families, killing an estimated 50 persons.

Hundreds more were missing, wounded, and presumed dead in one of the deadliest incidents of labor suppression and racial terrorism.

People of the state-recognized Native American Houma Tribe live in both Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.

Most of the deaths were due to white suppression of labor unrest in 1887; blacks were skilled sugar workers and had begun to organize for better wages and conditions.

[8] In Golden Meadow, LA, the National Weather Service recorded storm surge measurements of 10.1 ft.[8] It was the strongest storm on record to make landfall in Lafourche Parish and at the time the 5th costliest hurricane in United States history.

Lafourche, like most of the Gulf Coast, is experiencing land loss due to man-made changes to the path of the Mississippi River and development in the swamplands.

[11] The levee, largely funded by a local tax and occasional money from the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, was built higher but narrower than recommended by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which decertified them.

[11] In the northern part of the parish, the shorter, federally approved levees were overtopped and the communities were flooded.