Sugar Cane Festival and Fair Building

The festival this hall was built for honors the sugar industry with a whole court. King Sucrose and Queen Sugar take part in a royalty parade on Main Street with queens from other sugar-producing parishes, and the program has included a boat parade with fireworks, a children's parade and a candy toss. The Berry Queens host the candy toss. The festival also holds a blessing of the crop, which has taken place at this building. Beyond the parades there are dance performances, a 4-H livestock show, a horticulture show and a contest for decorated homes and storefronts.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 0.5 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.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 8.2 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 8.3 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 9.1 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

• Becoming New Iberia — 0.4 mi
• Félicité — 0.4 mi
• Saint Peter's College — 0.4 mi
• New Iberia / La Nouvelle-Ibérie — 0.4 mi