Galveztown

Galveztown lasted barely three decades, and its record is thin on comfort. Founded in November 1778 where Bayou Manchac meets the Amite, it sent militiamen in August 1779 to take the British outpost at Amite, with seven vessels and 125 soldiers and sailors. Then sickness struck: smallpox and scabies killed over a third of the arriving Isleños by the winter of 1780, and a hurricane that August wrecked homes and crops. The last wedding came in February 1807. Archaeologists have dug the site since 1980.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 14 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Tickfaw State Park — 16 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.
• Old State Capitol — 19 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 19 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.

More markers nearby

• Bayou Manchac (Iberville River) — 6.2 mi
• Cal Ripken, Sr. — 7.9 mi
• The Civil War — 8.0 mi
• Civil War — 8.0 mi