Napoleonville

Before it was Napoleonville it was Canal, named for the waterway that ran west toward Lake Verret. The village became the seat of Assumption Parish when the parish was cut from Lafourche on March 31, 1807. The new name is credited to Pierre Charlet, a former soldier of Napoleon's armies who settled in the parish. A French-language newspaper, the Pionnier de l'Assomption, began in 1850 and later became an English paper. The legislature incorporated the town on March 11, 1878.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• E. D. White Historic Site — 11 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 16 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 18 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.
• Whitney Plantation — 23 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.

More markers nearby

• Christ Episcopal Church — steps away
• Madewood Plantation House — 2.1 mi
• Battle Of Georgia Landing — 6.2 mi
• Valenzuela Dans La Fourche — 7.9 mi