Mansura

Local lore says Mansura took its name from the Egyptian city of Mansoura, which Napoleon's troops marched through, and a 2010 account adds that veterans who took land here compared the farmland to the Egyptian town. The town is known for cochon de lait, young pigs roasted whole on frames over open flame, with a festival on Mothers' Day weekend and a permanent roasting area. The Louisiana Railway and Navigation depot joined the National Register in 1996, and the Louisiana 4-H Museum opened in town in 2009.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 3.5 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 4.6 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 23 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 27 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Desfossé House — steps away
• Battle of Mansura — 0.5 mi
• Presentation Academy — 3.1 mi
• Tunica-Biloxi Indian Reservation — 3.4 mi