Boeuf Prairie Methodist Church

In 1832 the Rev. Uriah Whatley was assigned a circuit called Boeuf River up to Big Creek, and a congregation formed in 1833, meeting in private homes. The church finished in 1837 used cypress and windows shipped from New Orleans by steamboat, and its whitewash earned it the nickname White Swan. When the Louisiana Conference organized in 1847, the congregation counted 141 white and 100 Black members. In 1939 the building was turned 180 degrees to face the new highway, and in 2022 the congregation left the United Methodist Church.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 31 mi
  Nearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.

More markers nearby

• Al "Puddler" Harris — 4.9 mi
• Richard Berry, Jr. — 7.6 mi
• Fred Carter, Jr. — 9.3 mi
• Franklin Parish — 9.6 mi