Atchafalaya River

Mr. Charlie was developed by the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company after Alden Laborde moved to Morgan City in 1948 and later met John Hayward. It was a drilling platform on a submersible barge: ten columns rose from a hull that could be sunk to the seabed, with a deck of machinery and crew quarters above, and it could work in up to 40 feet of water. Before it, Kerr-McGee's Rig 16, a Morgan City rig, had found oil in the Gulf in 1947. Mr. Charlie drilled more than 250 wells before it was retired.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 5.2 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• Grevemberg House Museum — 19 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 20 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Chitimacha Museum — 23 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.

More markers nearby

• Charles Morgan — 0.2 mi
• Morgan City Floodwalls — 0.3 mi
• Civil War Years — 0.4 mi
• Fort Star — 0.5 mi