Morgan City

Morgan City has grown and shrunk with what passed through it. When the town renamed itself for Charles Morgan in 1876, nearly 2,000 people lived there. By 1910 there were about 5,000, and in 1970, during the oil boom, more than 16,600. Fewer live there now. Congress had made Brashear an official port of entry in 1873, three years before the rename, and by the twentieth century shrimp and petroleum stood beside the older sugar, timber and seafood trades.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 8.2 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 17 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Grevemberg House Museum — 20 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 21 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

• Dr. Walter Brashear — 3.0 mi
• Civil War Years — 3.4 mi
• Fort Star — 3.4 mi
• Charles Morgan — 3.6 mi