Gibson Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register in 1986 for its architecture, this small frame church is the oldest pre-1900 church in Terrebonne Parish and one of only two Greek Revival churches left there. It takes the classical temple form and simplifies it: three bays, no portico, only a suggested pediment, and an interior of beaded plank walls, built-in pews and a raised altar platform. South of it stands a large brick tomb from 1860, rare in rural Louisiana. Neighbors once called it the Sycamore Church for the trees in its yard.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• E. D. White Historic Site — 11 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 12 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.
• 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.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 15 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.

More markers nearby

• Old Cattle Trail — 4.9 mi
• Sugar Row Plantations — 10 mi
• Orange Grove — 12 mi
• Mysteries of the Wetlands — 12 mi