Clark Cheniere

Clark Cheniere belonged to a trade older than any one village. Filipino fishermen had dried shrimp for generations, and Chinese merchants turned it into an industry in the 1870s, with the dried catch sold as far as Asia, Canada and Central and South America. Platform villages in Barataria Bay coordinated the catch and the drying. Manila Village, begun around the 1880s by one account, was the largest, with about 200 residents in 1938, and Hurricane Betsy destroyed it in 1965. Farther east, Saint Malo's residents formed the first Filipino American benevolent society in 1870.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barataria Preserve — 3.4 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park unit of bayou, swamp and marsh on the site of a Chitimacha and Houma shell-mound landscape, with the visitor center and most trails closed for about two years of repairs.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 14 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 16 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 16 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Manila Village — steps away
• Town of Jean Lafitte — 2.3 mi
• Barataria Preserve — 3.4 mi
• Poblacion de Barataria (Barataria Settlement) — 5.1 mi