Germantown Colony And Museum

Descendants saved what the colony left. In October 1973 two of them gave one acre of colony land and buildings to the Webster Parish Police Jury, and a restoration committee began work that December, with the parish Bicentennial committee helping. The National Register listed the site in 1979. Of the original houses, barns, stores and shops, two hewn-log buildings with dovetailed corners are counted as contributing today: the Countess's home and the kitchen and dining hall, which has a dry-stone cellar.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — steps away
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Lake Bistineau State Park — 20 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.

More markers nearby

• Germantown Colony — 6.1 mi
• Academy Park — 6.3 mi
• Homer College (CME) / African American Education in Louisiana — 11 mi
• Claiborne Parish Court House — 12 mi