Galliano

Who was Galliano? The community was Cote Cheramie until the postmaster, Alzec Autin, chose a new name to honor an original settler. One account has Antoine Galliano arriving in the late 1700s from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, after service to the Spanish king, and running a large farm and citrus orchard. A romantic legend says he was sent to Louisiana with his wife, Julia, after falling for a noblewoman. Descendants still live nearby, some spelling the name Galliano and others Galiano, and the 2020 census counted 7,100 people.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LUMCON DeFelice Marine Center — 25 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.
• Barataria Preserve — 27 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 — 29 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.

More markers nearby

• Golden Meadow — 3.2 mi
• Cote Blanche — 5.9 mi
• Curole House — 6.0 mi
• Larose — 9.8 mi