Bancker

Bancker today is a four-acre park on the Vermilion River, run by a nonprofit and known as the Bancker Grotto. The grotto is a replica of the one at Lourdes and stands where the community's first Catholic church once did. That church was moved to nearby Henry, where many residents had gone, and the original statue of Mary now stands in front of the Catholic church in Delcambre. The churchyard cemetery, which dates to 1897, has been refurbished and is open to visitors, and people come to fish from the bank near the grotto.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 13 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.
• Cypremort Point State Park — 19 mi
  A 185-acre Vermilion Bay park reached by road, with a half-mile man-made beach, a marsh boardwalk, shore fishing and a boat launch, and a Chitimacha tradition of a great cypress here.
• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 20 mi
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• Vermilionville — 24 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.

More markers nearby

• Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church — steps away
• Bancker Ferry — steps away
• Henry / Church — 2.8 mi
• St. Mary Congregational Church — 6.0 mi