Atchafalaya River (Butte La Rose Boat Landing)

Two stories explain the name Butte La Rose. One says the butte was named for an ancestor of Celestin Rose, a Chitimacha man, a claim with no source cited. The other says royalists who settled on the butte after the French Revolution named it for the rose, a symbol of the society they had lost. The community is mostly camps, about 800 houses by 2011, and that year the Army Corps opened the Morganza Spillway to protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans, putting Butte La Rose directly in the water's path.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 4.8 mi
  A state welcome center inside the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest river swamp, with exhibits on Basin history and life, a film, a crawfishing boat and French-speaking staff.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 14 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 14 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge — 4.8 mi
• Atchafalaya River (Atchafalaya Welcome Center) — 4.8 mi
• Atchafalaya Floodway — 6.5 mi
• Welcome to Parks — 9.7 mi