Harry B. Hewes House

The man who lived here made his living in cypress. By 1905 the Jeanerette Lumber and Shingle Company was cutting about 75,000 board feet of lumber, 200,000 shingles and 25,000 lath a day, with five boilers driving the band mill. It held roughly 300 million feet of standing cypress on 28,000 acres in St. Martin and Assumption parishes. Harry Bartram Hewes, born in Houston in 1866, joined as a bookkeeper in 1887 and bought a one-sixth share that November. Fire took the planing mill in 1896 and the sawmill in 1898.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chitimacha Museum — 8.7 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.
• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 11 mi
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• Grevemberg House Museum — 13 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 15 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.

More markers nearby

• Streetcar Wheel — 0.8 mi
• Nicholas Provôt — 0.8 mi
• Steamboats — 0.8 mi
• Beau Pre-Circa 1828 — 3.3 mi