Cote Blanche

The whitewash answered a storm. The hurricane that came ashore early on October 2, 1893, at Cheniere Caminada killed an estimated 2,000 people along Louisiana's coast by National Hurricane Center reckoning, and perhaps 1,100 to 1,400 of them onshore. Grand Lake lost 250, at least 200 died along Bayou Cook, and Buras was left with two houses standing. Survivors who reached this stretch of Bayou Lafourche rebuilt in a settlement that took its name from white-painted homes.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barataria Preserve — 23 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.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 25 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.
• LUMCON DeFelice Marine Center — 27 mi
  The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's laboratory at the end of Highway 56, open for self-guided tours of aquaria and exhibits, an observation tower and a pond boardwalk.
• Laurel Valley Village — 33 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.

More markers nearby

• Curole House — steps away
• Larose — 3.9 mi
• Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church — 4.9 mi
• Galliano — 5.9 mi