Young Pilgrim Baptist Church

Young Pilgrim began in 1887 in a modest home on Foret's Plantation and moved several times before settling at its present site. Rev. Moses Russ, who died in 1958, led it and also Pleasant Hill Baptist, a church founded in 1874. His daughter, Ruth Russ Debeau, remembers a close community where neighbors shared what they had, in an area now dominated by heavy industry. The marker is one of several sponsored by Inclusive Louisiana and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade to keep that earlier community on the record.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 11 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 14 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 14 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.
• Laurel Valley Village — 15 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.

More markers nearby

• Convent — 0.3 mi
• Judge Poché Plantation House Historical Marker — 0.5 mi
• Manresa House of Retreats — 1.0 mi
• Site of First Acadian Settlers in Louisiana — 1.1 mi