Sunrise

Sunrise was a small Black community just north of today's Port Allen, founded by Alex Banes, a formerly enslaved man, in the 1870s; accounts give 1874 or about 1878. Many residents worked at the railroad's Anchorage Depot, and much of the community moved away when the depot relocated by 1900. A fire in 1918 destroyed most of what remained, and the area was absorbed into the town. Port Allen's Scott's Cemetery, at Court and Commerce streets and dating to slavery times in the 1850s, holds many of the parish's Black dead.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Capitol — 1.6 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• Capitol Park Museum — 1.9 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Old State Capitol — 2.3 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 6.9 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Poplar Grove Plantation — 1.1 mi
• Third Parish Courthouse — 1.2 mi
• Port Allen Prisoner-Of-War Sub-Camp No. 7 — 1.2 mi
• Cohn High School — 1.5 mi