Lutcher

A Pennsylvania lumberman gave this town its name. Henry J. Lutcher built the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company into a Texas giant at Orange on the Sabine, starting in 1877, then turned to the cypress along the Mississippi. In the 1880s he bought a swamp of roughly fifty square miles, and in 1889 he put a sawmill here in St. James Parish. His sons-in-law, W.H. Stark and E.W. Brown, helped build the Orange side of the business. The river swamps supplied the cypress; the Sabine mills supplied the pine; the same company name sat on both.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 2.6 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 — 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 — 19 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 20 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.

More markers nearby

• Lutcher United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi
• Gramercy Historical Marker — 0.5 mi
• Colonial Sugars Refinery — 1.0 mi
• Colonial Sugars Refinery — 1.0 mi