Welcome to Berwick

The Bayou Teche Waltz has a less simple history than its title suggests. Its melody was first recorded by the Segura Brothers under another name, My Sweetheart Run Away. Nathan Abshire, the Basile accordionist, recorded it as La Valse de Bayou Teche for Khoury's in 1951 and rewrote the words over the years. He cut it again for Swallow in 1968 and for La Louisiane in 1973. Lyle Ferb credits Will Kegley, not Abshire, with the 1951 vocal. In 1995 a newspaper still counted it, with Pine Grove Blues, among his enduring favorites.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 4.8 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• Grevemberg House Museum — 19 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 20 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Chitimacha Museum — 23 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.

More markers nearby

• Southwest Reef Lighthouse — steps away
• Morgan City Floodwalls — 0.4 mi
• Atchafalaya River — 0.4 mi
• Charles Morgan — 0.4 mi