Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church

A storm took the first church. Local history says the original parish church, Notre Dame du Sainte Rosarie, was destroyed by the hurricane and flood of 1909, and a replacement went up and was later rebuilt in brick. The parish is credited as a main reason Larose grew at all. Its land still serves the town: Larose Regional Park and Civic Center opened in 1978 on ground leased from the church. The parish today is Holy Rosary Catholic Church, and the cemetery beside it has been used for generations.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 22 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.
• Barataria Preserve — 22 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park unit of bayou, swamp and marsh on the site of a Chitimacha and Houma shell-mound landscape, with the visitor center and most trails closed for about two years of repairs.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 25 mi
  A 4,212-acre refuge of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp southwest of Houma, with a nature trail to a boardwalk and observation deck and mostly boat-only access.
• LUMCON DeFelice Marine Center — 28 mi
  The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's laboratory at the end of Highway 56, open for self-guided tours of aquaria and exhibits, an observation tower and a pond boardwalk.

More markers nearby

• Larose — 1.2 mi
• Curole House — 4.8 mi
• Cote Blanche — 4.9 mi
• Galliano — 11 mi