Habitation La Grivelière, Coffee plantation and historical monument in Vieux-Habitants, Guadeloupe.

Habitation La Grivelière is a coffee plantation at 200 meters elevation in the Grande Rivière des Vieux-Habitants valley, within Guadeloupe National Park. Its dozen buildings include a manor house, an overseer's house, two boucans, a roasting shed, mills, a bonifierie, a cacao fermentation room, an oratory and five former slave huts. The long wooden building in the photographs has a pale corrugated metal roof and a facade of weathered reddish-brown and gray plank panels between vertical posts, with a low wooden walkway and steps at the left end.

Jacobin monks founded the estate in the late 17th century as Manufacture Saint-Joseph; from 1750 it was enlarged plot by plot. In 1761 Laurent Georisse bought it, and in 1788 its 50-hectare coffee works held 45 slaves. Auguste-Alexandre Perriolat acquired it in 1842 and named it La Grivelière after his birthplace near Montrigaud; it was classified a monument historique on 21 January 1987.

The name comes from Auguste-Alexandre Perriolat, who in 1842 named the estate after his birthplace near Montrigaud in the Drôme. The site was long a coffee works, with a bonifierie for hulling and roasting the beans; cacao was fermented in a murisserie. The estate also grew roucou, whose red dye replaced madder in military cloth.

The site has been closed since the COVID-19 epidemic and had not reopened as of 2024, so check its status before setting out. It lies at the end of the Grande Rivière des Vieux-Habitants valley, past the Schœlcher locality, at 200 m altitude inside Guadeloupe National Park; the access track is unpaved.

The name La Grivelière was given in 1842 by Auguste-Alexandre Perriolat, recalling his birthplace near Montrigaud in the Drôme. Before that the estate was called Manufacture Saint-Joseph, founded by Jacobin monks. The site has been closed since the COVID-19 epidemic and had not reopened as of 2024.