Terrebonne Parish Courthouse Square Oaks

A name on the marker leads to a newspaper. Wikipedia says the Houma Courier was founded in 1878 by Lafayette Bernard Filhucan Bazet, a French-born man, and began as Le Courrier de Houma. LSU's newspaper history says it ran four pages, two in French and two in English, and was mostly English by the 1880s. The marker credits a B. F. Bazet, described as a hotelier and newspaper founder, with overseeing the 1886 planting, eight years after the Courier began. Jean Pierre Cenac supplied the oaks.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 1.2 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.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 5.4 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 14 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 15 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.

More markers nearby

• 1834-1934 — steps away
• Saint Francis de Sales Church — steps away
• A History of Terrebonne Parish — steps away
• Bayou Terrebonne — steps away