Sacred Heart Church

Sacred Heart is a church the storms keep rebuilding. By the parish's account it was established on November 9, 1864 to serve Bayou Grand Caillou, Bayou Petit Caillou, Bourg, Isle de Jean Charles, Pointe-aux-Chenes and Montegut. A storm destroyed the first church, in lower Montegut, in 1909; a second, built in 1894 in the town itself, was struck by lightning in 1954; the Romanesque church standing now was finished in 1956. In 1921 a priest of Sacred Heart received permission to build the first chapel at Pointe-aux-Chenes, which a hurricane destroyed in 1926.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 13 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.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 15 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 — 17 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 26 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

• "Hello Baby!" — steps away
• Montegut School — 0.2 mi
• Saint Joseph Church — 2.4 mi
• NAS Houma (LTA) — 9.9 mi