First Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church Sanctuary

A separate church built for Black Catholics can stand for exclusion and for self-determination at once, and the National Register of Historic Places treated Our Lady of Grace as both. Listed on November 15, 2005, it was found significant for religion, social history and ethnic heritage, as an example of the separate Catholic churches created for African American parishioners in southern Louisiana. Josephite priests staff the parish. The building was moved in 1992 to save it from demolition, and it joined the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail in 2012.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 6.2 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.
• 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.
• Tickfaw State Park — 22 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 24 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

• Historic Riverlands, 1811 Slave Revolt — steps away
• Maurin's Theater — 1.3 mi
• Caroline Deslonde Beauregard — 2.0 mi
• Luis Bethancourt — 2.1 mi