Bayou Lacombe Museum

History and culture meet in the newly reopened Bayou Lacombe Museum. Housed in the oldest existing wooden schoolhouse in St. Tammany Parish, the building was constructed in 1912 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Museum exhibits explore 18th, 19th and 20th century life in Lacombe. Some feature the Choctaw and their beloved Father Adrien Rouquette, a Catholic missionary they would come to call “ChahtaIma,” meaning “like a Choctaw.” Others showcase rural life, as well as the primary industries that built the town (lumber, brickmaking, crabbing, boat-building and shipping goods to New Orleans). The little museum’s Hall of Heroes is dedicated to residents who served in the military.

The museum is open Thursday-Sunday, so stop by. Beginning in April, every third Sunday at 2 p.m., the Bayou Lacombe Museum is presenting a guest speaker series, “History on the Bayou.” Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for seniors and free for children under 12 accompanied by an adult, as well as for school groups.

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