Jefferson Davis Louisiana Association

Jefferson Davis spent less than a year of his childhood on Bayou Teche. His father, Samuel Davis, moved the family from Kentucky to the Attakapas country in 1811, then on to a farm near Woodville, Mississippi. That is the whole Louisiana stay. Memorials to Davis belong to the Lost Cause tradition, which recast the Confederacy's purpose as something other than slavery. Davis himself held 23 enslaved people in 1836, 40 in 1840 and 113 by 1860 at Brierfield, and the Confederacy he led was founded to protect slavery.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Grevemberg House Museum — 2.4 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.
• Chitimacha Museum — 5.6 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.
• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 17 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.
• Cypremort Point State Park — 20 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.

More markers nearby

• The Massé - Darby House — 2.1 mi
• German Prisoner of War Camp — 2.3 mi
• Charles Austin O'Niell — 2.4 mi
• Franklin — 2.5 mi