Bayou Carlin Cove

Delcambre takes its name from a Belgian family, and the town sits on the line between Vermilion and Iberia parishes. The canal, first dredged in 1906, links Lake Peigneur to Vermilion Bay and crosses the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The first post office opened in 1877 and the town was incorporated in 1907. This is hurricane coast. Audrey, in June 1957, sent surge of about 8 to 11 feet over coastal Vermilion, Iberia and St. Mary parishes, and its toll is put at more than 400 or at least 500 dead. Rita flooded Delcambre in 2005.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 4.8 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.
• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 11 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.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 16 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.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 16 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.

More markers nearby

• Lake Peigneur — 2.2 mi
• Dedicated to the Memory of Joseph Jefferson — 2.4 mi
• The 1964 Fall of the Erath Water Tower — 3.3 mi
• First Lt. Brandon R. Dronet — 3.3 mi