King's Corner

Felix King lived from 1819 to 1897 and sold wholesale and retail dry goods here by 1847. His family lived in a large house behind the store, on a block that ran back toward Vine Street. The house passed to Leonce Sandoz, owner of the Opelousas Courier, whose family stayed until his death in 1910, and in 1919 to the jeweler Frank Dietlein Sr. St. Landry Bank bought the property in the early 1970s, and the house, more than a century old, was torn down in 1974. Its site became part of the bank's parking lot.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 0.4 mi
  A heritage park in Opelousas built around the Venus House of about 1791, the home of a free Creole woman of color, Marie Francois Venus, with an old schoolhouse, Methodist church and the visitor center's zydeco music exhibit.
• Prairie Acadian Cultural Center — 21 mi
  A National Park Service center in Eunice on the Cajun prairie, with exhibits on the Acadians who settled the prairies, a Courir de Mardi Gras display, free music and cooking demonstrations, and the shuttered Liberty Theatre nearby.
• Vermilionville — 23 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 25 mi
  A state welcome center inside the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest river swamp, with exhibits on Basin history and life, a film, a crawfishing boat and French-speaking staff.

More markers nearby

• Manon's Corner — steps away
• Bloch Corner — steps away
• Opelousas — steps away
• Jim Bowie Oak — steps away