Montpelier

Montpelier was St. Helena's parish seat for twenty years, from 1812 to 1832, before the courthouse went to Greensburg in the year the parish's southern section was given to Livingston. Papers from those first decades survive in the archive at Southeastern Louisiana University: a Spanish survey map of 1808, a map of the town, and deed books for 1811 to 1815 abstracted by Warren B. Wall, covering parish judges Audley L. Osborne and Shepherd Brown. The village counted about 200 people at the 2020 census.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tickfaw State Park — 21 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 33 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• C.P.'s Station — 9.4 mi
• Church of the Incarnation — 9.5 mi
• Independence — 9.9 mi
• Blythewood Plantation — 10 mi