Saint Hubert Parish

Garyville began in 1903, when the Lyon Lumber Company of Chicago bought Glencoe Plantation for its cypress and named the town for its first president, John Gary. The company laid out a grid of streets with housing, a school, a hotel, shops and a post office, and employed about 1,000 people, among them Sicilian immigrants. Its log pond held a cypress said to be 1,300 years old. The church rectory dates to 1907. The company built a 35-mile railroad north to Livingston and closed in under thirty years, after fires, thinning timber and the Depression.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 2.2 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.
• Destrehan Plantation — 17 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Laurel Valley Village — 21 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 22 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.

More markers nearby

• Graugnard House — 1.8 mi
• The Big House — 2.1 mi
• The Slave Quarters — 2.3 mi
• Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall — 2.3 mi