C.P.'s Station

Charlie Currier earned a local fame all his own. Born in 1911, he fought fires in Amite City for 58 years and also worked as an electrician and plumber. In 1979 he was crowned the first Amite Oyster Festival King. The festival itself had begun on March 20, 1976, at the Tangipahoa Parish Fairgrounds, a nod to the town's old role as an oyster-processing center. A memory fund in his name paid for his memorial.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tickfaw State Park — 25 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.

More markers nearby

• Church of the Incarnation — steps away
• Blythewood Plantation — 0.6 mi
• Independence — 6.4 mi
• Montpelier — 9.4 mi