Pilgrim Full Gospel Baptist Church

Nine neighbors bought a parcel of land in 1892 to found a Baptist church, and they set part of it aside as a burial ground; later the church sold lots to local families. Burial grounds are on the record here for a reason: a 2024 report identified five formerly enslaved people buried on the site of a proposed Formosa Plastics plant in the same parish. The marker, sponsored by Inclusive Louisiana and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, belongs to an effort to record Black communities that existed before large-scale industry arrived.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 16 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 18 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 — 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 22 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.

More markers nearby

• Philippian Baptist Church — steps away
• Tezcuco Plantation — 1.9 mi
• Bocage Plantation — 3.8 mi
• Houmas House — 4.0 mi