Bank of Slaughter

Slaughter's only bank was a modest thing: a one-story Italianate brick building, organized on May 27, 1905 with $15,000 in capital and opened that September. For nearly twenty-eight years it was the whole of the town's banking, on a lot of less than an acre. On May 11, 1933, in the depths of the Depression, it closed for good. The brick shell stayed on Church Street, and in 2005 the little building earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 8.7 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 12 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 15 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 18 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.

More markers nearby

• Battle of the Plains Store — 4.1 mi
• Linwood — 4.5 mi
• Town of Zachary — 4.8 mi
• The First West Florida Convention, 1810 — 5.0 mi