Montegut School

A second Montegut school stood for Native children. The Montegut Indian School, also called Lower Montegut School, was built in 1920 during segregation. After a 1964 court approved a plan to desegregate the white and Indian schools of Terrebonne Parish, the United Houma Nation, which owns the building, used it for holiday celebrations, meetings and distributing supplies after storms. A 2009 fire ended its use, and the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation named it an endangered place in 2024. The 1912 school was listed on the National Register on October 7, 1993, as Montegut Elementary School.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 13 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 — 15 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.
• LUMCON DeFelice Marine Center — 17 mi
  The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's laboratory at the end of Highway 56, open for self-guided tours of aquaria and exhibits, an observation tower and a pond boardwalk.
• Laurel Valley Village — 26 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.

More markers nearby

• Sacred Heart Church — 0.2 mi
• "Hello Baby!" — 0.4 mi
• Saint Joseph Church — 2.3 mi
• NAS Houma (LTA) — 10.0 mi