Magnolia Cemetery

Most Houma families were French Catholics, buried in cemeteries behind their churches, which left the town's small non-Catholic population needing ground of its own. Magnolia Cemetery was set up for them on Main Street, in 1884 by one local account. By then Houma had a Methodist church, shown on an 1855 map beside the Catholic one, and St. Matthew's Episcopal, chartered that same year under Louisiana's first Episcopal bishop. Protestants were a minority, but they had churches of their own well before the cemetery opened.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 1.6 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 — 5.8 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 — 14 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 — 15 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

• A History of Terrebonne Parish — steps away
• The Grand Dérangement / Le Grand Dérangement — steps away
• New Acadia / Nouvelle Acadie — steps away
• Bayou Terrebonne — steps away