Port Sulphur

Freeport Sulphur built this company town in the early 1930s to serve a Frasch-process mine about ten miles west in the marsh, which ran from 1933 to 1978; the plant later served offshore mines too. By the 1980s sulfur recovered from oil and gas refining undercut mined sulfur, and the company shut its operations in the early 2000s. Katrina's roughly 22 feet of water in August 2005 destroyed nearly all single-family homes. The census counted 3,115 people in 2000, 1,760 in 2010 and 1,677 in 2020; the parish government works from the old company office.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barataria Preserve — 33 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.

More markers nearby

• Plaquemines Parish — 8.9 mi
• The 1893 Hurricane — 16 mi
• Eads Jetties — 16 mi
• Bayou Mardi Gras — 16 mi