Sugartown

For about twenty years the people of Sugartown fetched their mail from Belgrade, Texas. A post office finally opened here in 1841, with weekly horseback delivery from Lake Charles. The settlement had the first cotton gin west of the Calcasieu River, which ran for more than forty years, along with the area's first school and church. It was never incorporated, but it was the district's trade center until DeRidder overtook it as timber and railroads reshaped the map. Today it is a scatter of homes along Sugar Creek, better known for its watermelons than its past.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Coushatta Powwow and Koasati Heritage Day — 24 mi
  The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana's annual powwow and its free Koasati Heritage Day, held at the tribe's resort in Kinder.

More markers nearby

• Sawmills & Electric Plant — 12 mi
• Fullerton Mill & Town — 12 mi
• Town of Elizabeth — 13 mi
• Wolf Rock Cave — 14 mi