Lutcher United Methodist Church

The sanctuary is built entirely of native heart cypress, in a town that grew up around a cypress mill. William H. Curtis, then a layman rather than a minister, felt called to start a church in the new town of Lutcher about 1898, and a Victorian-style building followed about three years later. It was the first Protestant church in the River Parishes, in a country of Catholic parishes, and it was listed on the National Register in 1992. On its hundredth anniversary in 1998 the bishop of the Louisiana conference came to preach.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 2.9 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 — 0.4 mi
• Gramercy Historical Marker — 0.7 mi
• Colonial Sugars Refinery — 1.0 mi
• Colonial Sugars Refinery — 1.2 mi