The Episcopal Church Of The Epiphany

The first church was put up in the winter of 1857 and 1858 for a reported $6,000, on land Harvey Hopkins gave at the west end of Main Street. Bishop Leonidas Polk consecrated it that spring. Local brick and wood gave it pointed arches, a round rose window, buttresses topped with small spires and a vestibule with a Gothic arch. A wooden belfry added in 1884 resembles one at Boarhunt Church in England. When Union forces occupied the town in April 1863 they used the building as barracks, prison, stable and hospital, and afterward the congregation scrubbed its walls.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 0.4 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 — 7.9 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 — 7.9 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 — 8.8 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

• A Walk of Faith — steps away
• Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Bouligny — 0.2 mi
• Louisiana's First Black Female Physician Dr. Emma Wakefield-Paillet — 0.2 mi
• Kathleen Babineaux Blanco — 0.2 mi