CAJUN COAST VISITORS GUIDE 2018-2019
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Other areas for nature
watching include Cypremort
Point State Park, Charenton
Levee Road, Lake End Park
Walking Trail or Berwick
Walking Trail.
CULTURAL TOUR
Begin your day by
visiting the Sovereign
Nation of the Chitimacha.
Its cultural center on the
reservation, the Chitimacha
Museum, highlights history
of the Chitimacha Tribe and
preservation efforts.
Your next stop is Franklin,
an English town set in the
middle of the Cajun Coast.
Include a tour of Oaklawn
Manor, a stately plantation
home; Grevemberg House
Museum, a town home of the
1800s, or Shadowlawn, a circa
1850 Greek Temple, in your
itinerary. During the 19th
century, residents were major
agriculturalists and Franklin
became a major interior sugar
port, resulting in over 400
noteworthy historic properties
today.
Next, travel along the
Atchafalaya National Heritage
Area to Patterson to the
Louisiana State Museum and
tour the Wedell-Williams
Aviation and Cypress Sawmill
collections, chronicling early
pioneers of the community
efforts in flight and in
lumbering. Enjoy lunch.
After lunch, you’ll travel
to downtown Morgan City
and tour the International
Petroleum Museum &
Exposition, the “Mr. Charlie,”
to learn about the oil industry
and its ties to the community.
From the “Mr. Charlie,”
travel to downtown Morgan
City and climb the “Great
Wall,” a 21-foot seawall surrounding
the city. Built for flood
protection, the seawall gives
visitors a bird’s eye view of the
Atchafalaya River, one of the
country’s busiest waterways.
Then stop in to view local art for
sale at Everett Street Gallery.
MOVIE TOUR
Begin your tour at the end
of Four-Mile Bayou Road in
Stephensville at T-Man Bailey’s
Store. The original T-Man
Bailey’s store was blown up
during the shooting of Tony
Scott’s movie Déjà Vu, starring
Denzel Washington, Paula
Patton, Val Kilmer and Jim
Cavaziel in the story of an ATF
agent who goes back in time
to prevent a terrorist act. The
waterways surrounding the road
were the setting for the water
chase scenes.
Heading back towards
Stephensville along Four-Mile
Bayou, the swamps you’ll see
represented the jungles of Africa
in the first Tarzan of the Apes,
a silent movie featuring Elmo
Lincoln that was filmed in
Morgan City in 1918.
Driving along Highway
70, you’ll see more swampland
near Doiron’s Landing. This
swampland was used as the
backdrop for Willie Stark’s
campaign speech in All the
King’s Men, a political drama
loosely based on former
Louisiana Governor Huey Long
and starring Sean Penn, Jude
Law, Kate Winslet, Patricia
Clarkson and James Gandolfini.
This swampland was also the
location of the family home
in the sci-fi, futuristic flick,
The Fire Next Time, a story
about global warming and the
greenhouse effect that starred
Bonnie Bedelia and Craig T.
Nelson.
Once in Morgan City, travel
to Railroad Avenue. Railroad
Avenue and its stores represented
the 1940s hometown of
Willie Stark in All the King’s
Men. From Railroad Avenue,
travel to the Front Street area
near the docks. This site was the
scene of the terrible flooding in
The Fire Next Time. The wharf
area was the major setting for
the movie Thunder Bay, starring
Jimmy Stewart in the story
of the conflicts between the
fishing and oil industries. Willie
Stark in All the King’s Men
made another campaign speech
at the docks. Most recently, the