This old church was located on what was formerly the Rost Plantation, then the Pan-American Petroleum Corporation refinery. It was used as a colored school and...

Note Card - Commerce along River Road. Tags: #early roadways #early roadways - preview #small business

Numa Zeringue’s Mamzelle Store was built in 1875 on the River Road in Destrehan where the Capital One Bank is today. Notice the wheel ruts in the road. The...

Evelyn Jourdan Gassen. Tags: #early roadways #luling town history

The St. Charles Parish Courthouse in 1826. Tags: #1826 courthouse #major parish skirmishes #early roadways

Famous Mississippi River landmark. Located in Destrehan on La. 48 (River Road). First constructed of logs about 1740. Burned and rebuilt in 1806. Famous...

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Little Red Church. Tradition holds that the 1740 St. Charles log chapel was destroyed by fire in 1806 and rebuilt the same year. It was replaced by a wood...