Henry / Church

Henry Hub, the natural gas junction whose prices anchor North American markets, takes its name from this hamlet, which took its own from Henry High School. The school honored benefactor William Henry, a German immigrant born Ludwig Wilhelm Kattentidt. Stone and Webster built the original hub in the early 1950s for Texaco. In April 1990 the New York Mercantile Exchange began offering natural gas futures with delivery at Henry Hub, and its price has been the main benchmark ever since. The hub itself stands in the Erath area, not in the village.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 10 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.
• Cypremort Point State Park — 17 mi
  A 185-acre Vermilion Bay park reached by road, with a half-mile man-made beach, a marsh boardwalk, shore fishing and a boat launch, and a Chitimacha tradition of a great cypress here.
• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 18 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.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 22 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• Bancker — 2.8 mi
• Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church — 2.8 mi
• Bancker Ferry — 2.8 mi
• Acadian Prairie Settlement — 5.6 mi