Luis Bethancourt

Born at Guía in the Canary Islands in 1750, Luis Betancourt landed at New Orleans on November 1, 1778, one of 265 Canary Islanders aboard the Santísimo Sacramento, and was assigned to the Louisiana Regiment. Muster records place him at Fort Bute, at the Baton Rouge siege, at Mobile in March 1780 and in the Pensacola campaign, and he stayed on the rolls through 1783. He died in New Orleans in 1826. His surname is spelled Bethancourt, Betancour and, in one Spanish paper, Bertucart, and that paper's age for him does not fit a 1750 birth.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 5.5 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.
• Destrehan Plantation — 14 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 22 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 — 23 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

• Caroline Deslonde Beauregard — steps away
• Maurin's Theater — 0.7 mi
• Graugnard House — 1.9 mi
• First Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church Sanctuary — 2.1 mi