Bayou Paul Colored School

Amanda Grace stood six feet one and taught kindergarten through eighth grade nearly alone for nineteen years. A college graduate, she joined the summer recess games and taught discipline and manners along with lessons. Students cooked lunches for ten cents, cleaned up afterward and kept the coal stove fed in winter. The building was a one-room schoolhouse with a tin roof and wooden floors. Former students became doctors and teachers. The school now stands in Amanda Grace Memorial Park as a museum, moved about a half mile in 2006.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 7.5 mi
  Four 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 — 11 mi
  James 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 — 11 mi
  The 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 — 11 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

• Capt. Pierre Joseph Landry — 3.5 mi
• St - Gabriel (1761-1763) — 3.5 mi
• Morrisonville — 6.7 mi
• Sardine Point / The Cut Off — 7.2 mi