Watson

The community has a second name, Live Oak. The first Live Oak School, a one-room cypress schoolhouse, was built in 1895 on land donated by Rev. Joel Ott. The original Live Oak Methodist church was destroyed during the Civil War, and a frame church built in 1893 served the congregation until 1950. The post office, opened on February 20, 1894, took its name from the first postmaster, George W. Watson, whose family owned the land at the center of the community.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 15 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.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 16 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 — 16 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 — 17 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.

More markers nearby

• Indians Along Amite River — 0.6 mi
• Historic Denham Springs — 6.3 mi
• Denham Springs — 6.7 mi
• Walker, Louisiana — 8.1 mi