The Grand Dérangement / Le Grand Dérangement

The Acadian cross beside the Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum was unveiled on Sunday, October 9, 2011, during the Grand Réveil Acadien, a ten-day French culture festival with events in four Louisiana cities. It was the first of its kind in the United States, one of a series marking where deported Acadians landed. It pairs a map of how the exiles scattered with English and French panels and a replica of the cross at Grand-Pré. The Société nationale de l'Acadie created it, and Françoise Enguehard spoke at the dedication.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 1.4 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 — 5.6 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

• New Acadia / Nouvelle Acadie — steps away
• Bayou Terrebonne — steps away
• A History of Terrebonne Parish — steps away
• 1834-1934 — steps away