Courthouse

This courthouse carries a grudge. Local tradition says residents were so angry when the old courthouse was demolished that the architects and contractors, A. J. Bryan and Company, left their names off the 1903 cornerstone. The design is Beaux-Arts, with four Corinthian columns on tall brick pedestals and a cupola carrying four clocks. A year earlier the same firm had designed the French-chateau courthouse for neighboring Pointe Coupee Parish. An octagonal well house from 1842 stands on the grounds, and a rear addition followed in 1963.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 1.7 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 4.7 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 8.4 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 18 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

• British West Florida — steps away
• Grace Episcopal Church — steps away
• Old Burying Ground — steps away
• Temple Sinai — steps away