Curole House

This house came from a village that no longer exists. Cheniere Caminada, on the Gulf side near Grand Isle, held about 1,500 people in some 450 homes when the 1893 hurricane arrived. More than half died, 779 in all, and only four houses were left standing. Sixty-two survivors sheltered under the remaining roof of one wrecked home. A house moved from there to Bayou Lafourche the next year stands for a place that the water erased.

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

• Cote Blanche — steps away
• Larose — 3.8 mi
• Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church — 4.8 mi
• Galliano — 6.0 mi