New Iberia Shipwreck

The wreck under the boardwalk is thought to be the steamboat Teche, built in 1860 as the Tom Sugg for the White River trade. The Union gunboat Cricket captured it in 1863, and the Navy renamed it Tensas. E. B. Trinidad, a Teche steamboat captain, bought it at auction in August 1865. The timbers lie under about four feet of mud, part on private land and part in state waters, and pilings protect the site, now a registered archaeological site.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — steps away
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 8.2 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 8.2 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 8.8 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.

More markers nearby

• Bayou Teche — steps away
• George Rodrigue — steps away
• James Lee Burke — steps away
• William G. "Bunk" Johnson — steps away