Historical Marker
Bayou Goula
Bayou Goula, Iberville County · Louisiana
Erected 1962
Two peoples shared one village here when Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville arrived in 1699: the Bayogoula and the Mugulasha. That winter the Houma attacked them. In spring 1700 the Bayogoula attacked and destroyed the Mugulasha. Taensa refugees living among the Bayogoula turned on them in 1706, and the Tunica ambushed them the same year, nearly wiping them out. Smallpox killed many survivors by 1721. The few left joined neighboring Houma and Acolapissa villages or married into French, Spanish and German families, and the name now lives mostly as a place on the river.
Where it stands
30.20520, -91.18445 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- LSU Rural Life Museum — 15 miFour slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
- Old State Capitol — 17 miJames Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
- Capitol Park Museum — 17 miThe Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
- Louisiana State Capitol — 17 miA 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.