David L. & Jeanette Ross May House

Jeanette Ross May was the daughter of Henry Clay Ross, the educator and minister for whom Crowley's Black high school was named. She taught there for forty-six years, retired in 1967 and was the school's first librarian, lending books to other schools on Saturdays. In 1942 Ross named her husband, David May, principal, and he later led Ross High School until 1967. In 1954 he and Joseph A. Pete became the first Black aldermen elected in Louisiana since Reconstruction. David kept his council office in this bungalow of about 1935, one block from the school he ran.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana Oil and Gas Park — 17 mi
  The roadside park at Jennings where Louisiana's oil industry began in 1901, with a replica derrick, a pioneers' plaque and Gator Chateau.
• Prairie Acadian Cultural Center — 20 mi
  A National Park Service center in Eunice on the Cajun prairie, with exhibits on the Acadians who settled the prairies, a Courir de Mardi Gras display, free music and cooking demonstrations, and the shuttered Liberty Theatre nearby.
• Vermilionville — 23 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 29 mi
  A heritage park in Opelousas built around the Venus House of about 1791, the home of a free Creole woman of color, Marie Francois Venus, with an old schoolhouse, Methodist church and the visitor center's zydeco music exhibit.

More markers nearby

• Crowley (North Avenue F) — 0.5 mi
• Senator John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Speech — 0.5 mi
• Miller Stadium — 0.6 mi
• Crowley Louisiana Post Office 1913 — 0.6 mi