Pierre Part Bay

The town carries a man's name. Pierre Part was an Acadian exiled from Port Royal who reached Spanish Louisiana in 1766 with his wife Marguerite Melancon and their children; he died in 1826, and descendants still live nearby. Water kept the community apart long enough for French to hold on: in the 2000 census about 39 percent of residents spoke it at home, reported as the highest share of any town outside Maine. Before the Depression the men fished and hunted alligators; afterward many turned to logging, levee building and oil.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chitimacha Museum — 20 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.
• 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.
• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 20 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 — 20 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.

More markers nearby

• Virgin Island — steps away
• Virgin Island — steps away
• Grand Bayou — 6.0 mi
• Christ Episcopal Church — 11 mi