Welcome To Main Street Park

LaPlace's water and air carry a record. Hurricane Isaac in 2012 flooded about 5,000 houses here. Since 1969 a plant in neighboring Reserve, first DuPont's and sold to Denka in 2015, has made chloroprene, and a federal air assessment using 2011 data found elevated levels in LaPlace. The EPA has said the surrounding area carries a cancer risk more than 700 times the national average, in the stretch called Cancer Alley. Residents doubted the state's claim that emissions had been cut enough. The EPA sued in 2023, and the Justice Department dropped the case in March 2025.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 10 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Destrehan Plantation — 11 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Tickfaw State Park — 24 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 25 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.

More markers nearby

• Woodland Plantation — steps away
• A. Montz — 0.4 mi
• 1811 Kid Ory Historic House — 0.4 mi
• Laplace — 1.2 mi