Moreauville

Seaman Knapp believed young people who succeeded with proven farming methods would persuade their parents. Avoyelles school superintendent Victor Leander Roy Sr. put the idea to work, arranging for a railroad to bring boys to the first meeting at Moreauville High School in 1908. By 1911 corn, cotton and pig clubs had spread across the state, and young women joined canning and sewing clubs. Roy became the first state agricultural agent at LSU and is remembered as Louisiana's Father of 4-H. The school beside the marker joined the National Register in 2008.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 7.5 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 — 8.5 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.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 22 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.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 28 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.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Mansura — 4.6 mi
• Mansura — 5.0 mi
• Desfossé House — 5.0 mi
• Egg Pocking / Pâquer Les Œufs — 5.9 mi