Denise C. Borne School House

The Little Red School House was a stock order. In 1904 the Lafourche Parish School Board paid $2,511.01 for five frame schools, each 25 by 40 feet, for rural communities, and this was one. It opened with 78 pupils and an average attendance near 50, lower in hunting and trapping season. Two teachers split the grades between a front and a rear room. Highway work forced a move in 1925. In 1951 it crossed Bayou Boeuf by barge, pushed by a motorboat, and was rolled over private land to its present campus.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 12 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Laurel Valley Village — 13 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.
• Destrehan Plantation — 15 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 15 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.

More markers nearby

• Notre Dame de la Paix — 7.5 mi
• Town of Bowie — 9.4 mi
• St. Mary's Nativity Church — 9.6 mi
• First American Casualty Of WW II — 11 mi