St. Mary's Nativity Church

Hurricane Ida tore at the 1966 church. The storm damaged the roof, stripped copper from the steeple and knocked the rectory's columns to the ground. For nearly five years Masses were held in the parish school cafeteria next door. Then Bishop Simon Peter Engurait blessed the altar and rededicated the church on a Pentecost Vigil. Repairs kept murals by Milo Piuz, statues of St. Anne and the Sacred Heart dating to 1888, and part of the old high altar. A pipe organ in the nave is described as the only fully working one in the diocese.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Laurel Valley Village — 10 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 — 12 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 12 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.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 16 mi
  A 4,212-acre refuge of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp southwest of Houma, with a nature trail to a boardwalk and observation deck and mostly boat-only access.

More markers nearby

• Town of Bowie — 1.1 mi
• First American Casualty Of WW II — 3.9 mi
• Clotilda Plantation — 6.9 mi
• Lockport — 8.0 mi