To the memory of the intrepid German, Canadian, and French Pioneers who left homeland, endured hazards, survived hardships, and settled on the banks of the Mississippi in the early eighteenth century.
They and their hardy descendants cleared the . . . — — Map (db m250000) HM
Father Paret administers the sacrament of Baptism to an infant in a parishioner's home. It is known from Father's journal that he was very often called upon to administer the sacraments in private residences rather than in church. — — Map (db m250053) HM
Father Paret and a friend appear to be enjoying a game of chess in his residence. Although the Civil War era may have left the Presbytery and Little Red Church intact, on May 30, 1877, eight years after Father Paret's departure from St. Charles . . . — — Map (db m250055) HM
Little Red Church Cemetery, the oldest German cemetery in the South, was established on the original Spanish Land Grant of 1770. Part of the cemetery illustrated was later washed away by Mississippi River flood waters and levee realignment, and our . . . — — Map (db m250050) HM
The private chapel in the pastor's residence for celebrating daily mass while using Red Church only on Sunday. It was during this time in Father's tenure at St. Charles that he was planning a chapel to be located on a plot of ground directly across . . . — — Map (db m250056) HM
Father Paret's vegetable garden with 488 trees: orange, peach, pomegranate, persimmon, plum and much more. Livestock was also a part of his everyday life in rural St. Charles, a necessity for everyone. Father's chickens and other fowl were a happy . . . — — Map (db m250057) HM
The 48-foot Louisiana Lugger Style Wooden Tugboat is believed to be one of the last surviving of its kind. It was built in Bayou Gauche, Louisiana in 1953 by Joseph "Yep" Dufrene for Victor Matherne. In service: 1953-1980 Donated to St. Charles . . . — — Map (db m100387) HM
Constructed 1787-1790 for Robert de Logny, Inherited by Jean Noel d’Estrehan 1800. Bought from heirs of Pierre A. Rost in 1914 by Mexican Petroleum Co. Donated 1972 to River Road Historical Society by American Oil Co. — — Map (db m51607) HM
Destrehan Plantation is
located on the 1811 Slave
Revolt Trail approximately
midway between the start
at the 1811 Kid Ory Historic
House and the ending points
of the revolutionary march
near Kenner, Louisiana It
also served as the . . . — — Map (db m200721) HM
Marker 1 On October 20, 1976, the worst ferry disaster in the history of the United States occurred on the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish. Seventy-seven lives were lost. The people of Louisiana will never forget you. . . . — — Map (db m109564) HM
The Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement - 1984 Hale Boggs Bridge Awarded in a National Competition by the American Society of Civil Engineers. — — Map (db m109613) HM
This watercolor is the only known representation of the interior of the Little Red Church, Father Paret celebrates mass with an altar boy and sacristan named Francois Xavier Henriette. Could the statue seen to the right of the altar be the same . . . — — Map (db m250052) HM
Originally erected in 1830 at Glendale Plantation, Lucy, Louisiana. Donated by the Lanaux family, moved and reassembled at Destrehan Plantation in 1997.
Dedicated by the River Road Historical Society March 28, 1999. — — Map (db m51606) HM
This watercolor depicts two iconic symbols of Antebellum Louisiana, a planters house and a paddle-wheel boat. Upriver of Little Red Church stands Ormond Plantation seen here in 1859 and known to have been spared destruction by the Civil War. . . . — — Map (db m250054) HM
Father Paret lived here from December 1848 to October 1869, serving parishioners from the Golden Antebellum Age to Reconstruction, a privileged witness to profound changes in all of society. Men are seen gathering driftwood from the Mississippi . . . — — Map (db m250058) HM
Cir. 20 feet 8 inches
Spread 55 feet
Hight 70 feet
Propagated 1852
Live oak trees represent a strong set of roots, a solid base, a majestic stand. These trees have graced this church property since given to us in 1770 and have been silent . . . — — Map (db m250077) HM
Fifty-three years before the Declaration of Independence, five years before New Orleans had a permanent church, immigrants to the German Coast built on the west bank a log chapel to acknowledge their dependence upon God and to express their thanks . . . — — Map (db m85817) HM
First constructed of logs about 1740. Burned and rebuilt, 1806. Famous riverboat landmark, twenty-five miles from New Orleans where boat captains traditionally paid off their crews. Again burned and rebuilt about 1921. — — Map (db m85770) HM
Bird's Eye View. Looking upriver, this watercolor depicts the St. Charles Church Presbytery, Little Red Church and Ormond Plantation. Many other plantations can be seen across the Mississippi River, all in the heart of St. Charles Parish. This . . . — — Map (db m250049) HM
Of the thousands that departed France, only 300 German immigrants trickled in to the French Colony of Louisiana in 1721, deluded by John Law's Company of the West propaganda describing Louisiana as "a land filled with gold, silver, copper and lead . . . — — Map (db m86095) HM
600 acres of the Spanish Land Grant were sold in 1918 by Fr. Basty to help pay for the current church that would replace the Little Red Church. — — Map (db m250076) HM
"... the most important single group of landscape paintings done before the Civil War in Louisiana. Nothing is comparable to them." Pat Bacot, Louisiana State Museum
Father Joseph Michel Paret born in 1807 in Pelussin, France came to Little Red . . . — — Map (db m250048) HM
