John Carlton Beatty

The storm that took John Beatty's family was one of the worst on the Louisiana coast. It struck Last Island on August 10, 1856, with winds near 150 mph and a surge of 11 to 12 feet that left almost no building standing. About 198 of some 400 vacationers died. A story told of the Beattys says that when Beatty would not leave the Muggah Hotel, an enslaved man who worked for him saved a three-year-old son of Dr. Thomas Bryan Pugh. The man's name is not recorded.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — steps away
  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 — 2.2 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 5.7 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.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 15 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.

More markers nearby

• St. John's Historic Cemetery — steps away
• Marcus Pennington Zills — steps away
• Richard Henry Allen — steps away
• Whitmell Pugh Martin — steps away