St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church

Before the parish had a church of its own, St. John had a classroom. In 1876 the Sisters of Mount Carmel opened St. John's Day School as a mission of St. John the Evangelist. Sisters Anastasia Novel and Dominic Benney were the first teachers, and the pastor, Rev. J. Berthault, was a strong supporter. Other sisters served there over the years, among them Julia Concannon and Helen Burt. One Catholic school history says enrollment dropped once free public schools were open nearby, and that the school had closed by 1933.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• E. D. White Historic Site — 1.9 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 — 3.6 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 — 5.9 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.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 18 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.

More markers nearby

• Francis Tillou Nicholls — 3.4 mi
• Confluence Of Bayous — 3.6 mi
• George Seth Guion — 3.7 mi
• Silas T. Grisamore — 3.7 mi