The Henning Family

The Hennings' road to Sulphur was long. They came from Alabama after the Civil War by way of British Honduras and East Texas, reaching Calcasieu Parish around 1875. John T. Henning moved into Sulphur in 1885, and his transfer company hauled the first sulfur from the Union Sulfur Company to the railroad. He built a house around 1911 that the family lived in until about 1923. His son William founded the Cameron Telephone Company in 1928, which brought phone service to Hackberry and Cameron Parish and later reached the offshore oil and gas industry.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Creole Nature Trail Adventure Point — 1.3 mi
  A free visitor center at the western gateway of Louisiana's only All-American Road, with exhibits on alligators, migrating songbirds and the estuary.
• Sam Houston Jones State Park — 8.6 mi
  A 1,087-acre park on the West Fork of the Calcasieu with longleaf pine, cypress-tupelo swamp, five trails, cabins and kayak rentals.
• Imperial Calcasieu Museum — 9.3 mi
  Lake Charles's history museum, founded by the Junior League in 1963, with parish artifacts, Claire Chennault's uniform and the Sallier Oak.
• Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu — 10 mi
  A 6,000-square-foot museum of southwest Louisiana Carnival with about 275 costume mannequins and 14 animated figures, opened in April 2026.

More markers nearby

• Barbe Pier — 8.4 mi
• Captain Daniel Johannes Goos — 9.2 mi
• Hampton M. Roach — 9.2 mi
• Emanual Stance — 9.2 mi