Fifth Districts High School

The schoolhouse at 918 Roussell Street was called The Academy, and a St. Mary Now report says the Louisiana Southern Baptist Association's Fifth District built it in 1896. It became the Finding Our Roots African American Museum, listed on the National Register on June 18, 2018. Margie Scoby and Alvin Tillman started the project at a 2015 library meeting, and the museum opened in February 2017. Exhibits cover slavery, Reconstruction and civil rights across Terrebonne, Lafourche and nearby parishes, and note Joseph Dupart as the parish's first Black mayor, from 1872 to 1876.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 1.1 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.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 5.2 mi
  A 4,212-acre refuge of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp southwest of Houma, with a nature trail to a boardwalk and observation deck and mostly boat-only access.
• Laurel Valley Village — 14 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.
• 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

• Saint Francis de Sales Church — 0.2 mi
• YRF-4C Phantom II — 0.3 mi
• Terrebonne Parish Courthouse Square Oaks — 0.4 mi
• 1834-1934 — 0.4 mi