Saint Peter's College

The college buildings are gone, but the school carried on. In 1957 the Brothers of the Christian Schools opened a new campus on De La Salle Drive, took the name Catholic High and passed ownership to the town's Catholic parishes. Girls were admitted in 1987 and 1988, when the Sisters of Mount Carmel closed their own school and about 250 students crossed over. The Brothers left in the 1990s as fewer men entered religious life. The painter George Rodrigue graduated from the school in 1962.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — steps away
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 8.3 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 8.3 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 8.7 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.

More markers nearby

• Becoming New Iberia — steps away
• Félicité — steps away
• New Iberia / La Nouvelle-Ibérie — steps away
• Shadows-on-the-Teche — steps away