St. Jacques de Cabahanoce

Before it was a parish, Cabahanoce was a name, and the name is Choctaw in origin, from a word usually written Kabahannossé. It has been spelled Cabanocey, Cabahannocer and Cabahanoce, and the settlement it covered filled up with sugar plantations along this bank. It also took in thousands of Acadians displaced from Canada, which is why the stretch came to be called the Acadian Coast. The church that kept the name shares it with the parish around it: Saint James Parish and Saint Jacques are the same saint in English and French, and the river road still carries both.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 12 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 14 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 15 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 16 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

• Site of First Acadian Settlers in Louisiana — steps away
• Judge Poché Plantation House Historical Marker — 0.9 mi
• Convent — 0.9 mi
• Young Pilgrim Baptist Church — 1.2 mi