Cottonport Drugstore Building

The old drugstore is now the town's museum, and the town owns it. Inside are the original pencil-drawn plat of Cottonport in a glass case, hand-embossed tin ceiling tiles, a wringer washer beside a 1940s television, a 1930s dentist's chair and a big cotton wagon. Trophies from Cottonport High School, founded in 1929, are on display; its upper grades were removed by court order in 1988. A time capsule sealed in 2012 is due to be opened in 2037. The quilting festival is the museum's major annual event.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 8.7 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 9.9 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 25 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 27 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Egg Pocking / Pâquer Les Œufs — steps away
• Battle of Mansura — 4.9 mi
• Mansura — 5.3 mi
• Desfossé House — 5.4 mi