Grand Bayou

A village once stretched along about a mile of this bayou. Gustave de LaBarre started it around 1900 with a sawmill, a cotton gin, a broom factory, a moss gin, a store, a dance hall and a barbershop. Men worked the swamp, cutting timber, hauling logs with pull boats and dredging canals, and Saturday-night dances drew people by horse and by boat. Buses, gas, electricity and parish water came later. High water and the discovery of salt domes and natural gas eventually drove people out, and brine and storage operations now stand where the village was.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• E. D. White Historic Site — 19 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 — 24 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.
• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 25 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• Chitimacha Museum — 25 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.

More markers nearby

• Pierre Part Bay — 6.0 mi
• Virgin Island — 6.0 mi
• Virgin Island — 6.0 mi
• Valenzuela Dans La Fourche — 6.4 mi