St - Gabriel (1761-1763)

The church moved. Around 1900 it was hauled farther from the river to its present site, and its timbers proved to be in perfect condition. The parish bell in the tower is inscribed 1768 and is still in use. A Romanesque Revival church was finished in 1953 on the same property, and a former pastor wanted the old one kept. The old church was listed on the National Register on November 27, 1972. Hurricane Gustav destroyed the original steeple in 2008, and it was later repaired.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 11 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Old State Capitol — 14 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 15 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 15 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.

More markers nearby

• Capt. Pierre Joseph Landry — steps away
• Bayou Paul Colored School — 3.5 mi
• The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul — 4.2 mi
• The STAR (Carville's Patient-Published Newspaper) — 4.2 mi