Larose

A town this young carries one terrible date. On October 3, 1964, an F4 tornado from the Hurricane Hilda outbreak struck Larose, killing 22 people and injuring 165, and it is described as the deadliest tornado produced by a tropical cyclone since 1900. The place had only reached the census in 1950, with 1,286 people, and its first public school had opened in January 1916. Population peaked at 7,400 in 2010 and stood at 6,763 in 2020, and the town's high school merged with Golden Meadow's in 1966.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barataria Preserve — 21 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park unit of bayou, swamp and marsh on the site of a Chitimacha and Houma shell-mound landscape, with the visitor center and most trails closed for about two years of repairs.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 23 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.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 26 mi
  A 4,212-acre refuge of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp southwest of Houma, with a nature trail to a boardwalk and observation deck and mostly boat-only access.
• LUMCON DeFelice Marine Center — 28 mi
  The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's laboratory at the end of Highway 56, open for self-guided tours of aquaria and exhibits, an observation tower and a pond boardwalk.

More markers nearby

• Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church — 1.2 mi
• Curole House — 3.8 mi
• Cote Blanche — 3.9 mi
• Galliano — 9.8 mi