Steamboats

By the late 1930s the sternwheelers were nearly gone. The V. J. Kurzweg, about 150 feet long and probably the last, still ran the Teche as far as New Iberia and later hauled groceries for the Kurzweg family business. Three lumber towboats were still working in 1938: the Albert Hanson, built in 1896 for a Franklin lumber company, the 115-foot Amy Hewes and the steel-hulled M. E. Norman. The Amy Hewes passed to Planters Lumber Company, then in 1942 to May Brothers of Morgan City, and was decommissioned in 1949.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chitimacha Museum — 8.0 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.
• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 11 mi
  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.
• Grevemberg House Museum — 12 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 15 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

• Streetcar Wheel — steps away
• Nicholas Provôt — steps away
• Harry B. Hewes House — 0.8 mi
• Beau Pre-Circa 1828 — 4.1 mi