Lockport

The canal was a business before it was a landmark. The Barataria and Lafourche Canal Company, on land William Field gave, linked Bayou Terrebonne to New Orleans and finished the work in 1847, with locks following in 1850. Shipping declined after 1868, and the crevasse of 1876 partly destroyed the locks, whose brick remnants remain. Fire in 1916 took much of the business district, and Hurricane Betsy later destroyed the water tower built afterward. Lockport became a town in 1948 and is known for shipbuilding and Jefferson DeBlanc, a Medal of Honor pilot.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 13 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 — 17 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 18 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 20 mi
  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.

More markers nearby

• Clotilda Plantation — 1.7 mi
• First American Casualty Of WW II — 4.5 mi
• NAS Houma (LTA) — 8.7 mi
• Residence Plantation — 9.7 mi