Les Allemands

Killona is where the German Coast's story runs into the sugar economy that came after it. The district lies in the old German colonial area around Karlstein. Canaan Baptist Church dates from 1866, the year after the war, and Children of Israel Baptist from 1952. In 1880 field hands at Waterford Plantation struck. The Hymelia Crevasse of 1912 also hit the area. The Waterford 3 nuclear plant began construction in 1971 and began operating in 1985. The post office, opened in 1887, closed in 1987.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 9.1 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Whitney Plantation — 9.7 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Laurel Valley Village — 24 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.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 25 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.

More markers nearby

• 1811 Kid Ory Historic House — 3.1 mi
• A. Montz — 3.3 mi
• Welcome To Main Street Park — 3.5 mi
• Woodland Plantation — 3.5 mi