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 PomegranateRed
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Female
 |  | St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
< on 5/20/2011 9:16 PM >
|  | | | A friend told me this church stood on some property near her home. She found it while horseback riding.
This church honestly confuses me- its old, but almost like someone restored it years ago- including adding electricity & basic air conditioning, replacing the cross on the top and possibly the roof. Why anyone would want to do that, I do not know. Its certainly not a church people go to on Sundays, its in the middle of a small forest and fields, there isnt even a road that you could travel on to get to it, and its next to this pond/marsh. Through some research I discovered there is also a plantation home on the property, built somewhere around 1850, which was one of 5 plantation homes in the area, but is now the only one remaining. The home is on the National Register of Historic Places as well. Also down the road from the property is an area that was once a confederate camp and also housed some POW's and it was used for training.
Anyway, I can only assume the people who own the land & live in the home found the building and kept it in good condition. I still cant figure out a single reason one would put electricity/AC in it though, so that's kind of odd/creepy/both. The A/C wasnt running and the electricity didnt seem to work so I dont know when it was done.
There is a rather similar church in another part of LA (I will post a link below) so I believe the structure to likely be original to the area. But obviously the one I went to is in much, much better shape than this one I found on the internet. Yet I can not really find any information on the St. Martin Parish church online, at all. There are also grave stones outside of the church with dates similar to that of when the plantation home was built. So far I havent had much luck in finding info on the names of the people on them. There was also one that was so far in the brush that I could not read it or get good shots of it...I might return to check the grave names soon.
Here is the similar looking church in Chackbay, LA. This picture is from 2006, I read it pretty much collapsed in 2009 or 2010.
(Not my photo)
Can anyone make out the first name on this? I havent been able to...the graves were in a lot of brush with a lot of spiderwebs, and I wasnt prepared to get up in there to get super close...I can read the last name- Marcantel
No inscription on the small cross. A baby or child's grave?
The old cross from the top of the building
A/C Vents. Why???
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CaryW
Gender: Male
| | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 1 on 5/20/2011 9:33 PM >
| | | | Awesome place and pics. One of the old churches by me was restored and is used for special weddings/events and is kept up with a trust fund that the cemetary association owns. I was gonna guess that but the cemetary is not kept up.
Church ownership is a funny complicated thing, it could be still owned by the district that it is in. Not sure if it is called a district in the Catholic church.
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PomegranateRed
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Female
| | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 2 on 5/20/2011 9:40 PM >
| | | | Catholics call them parish's. Our "counties" are also called parishes here, so its confusing.
This is 100% not used for events in the area...
It almost makes me want to contact the owners to ask what the story is, but I figured that might be weird.
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CaryW
Gender: Male
| | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 3 on 5/20/2011 9:54 PM >
| | | | If my geography still works, is this area supposed to be flooding soon?
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urbexinc
   
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 4 on 5/20/2011 10:32 PM >
| | | | wow! amazing location and find! but it wouldn't be weird to contact owners...a lot of people do it...just tell them its for a school project or for your own personal photography work or historical research or something
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SinCalRyder
 
Location: Bakersfield CA
Gender: Male
Less worrying, more exploring!
| | | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 5 on 5/20/2011 10:36 PM >
| | | | The first name on that first marker appears to be LAURE, I would think LAURIE, but I cant seem to fit the I in there. Just a quick observation. By the way, pretty awesome find!
"Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today"
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misfit1969
Location: Rising Star, Texas
Gender: Male
| | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 6 on 5/21/2011 8:35 PM >
| | | | cool ass hell
Don't point your finger, unless your hand is clean. |
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PomegranateRed
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Female
| | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 7 on 5/21/2011 9:18 PM >
| | | | Posted by CaryW
If my geography still works, is this area supposed to be flooding soon?
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Parts of St. Martin Parish are expected to flood but where this is located, no. The revised inundation map from last week shows the water shouldnt really go close to there.
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theshortestsim
Location: New Orleans
Gender: Female
make exploring great again
| | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 8 on 5/23/2011 11:53 PM >
| | | | Nice find, it's so well preserved!
Adventure is out there. |
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PomegranateRed
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Female
| | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 9 on 5/24/2011 10:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by urbexinc
wow! amazing location and find! but it wouldn't be weird to contact owners...a lot of people do it...just tell them its for a school project or for your own personal photography work or historical research or something
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Hm, yeah, I might. Maybe that would help me research more info on it if they could tell me about it...I'd also like to see the plantation home they live in, I havent found ANY pictures of it online taken since like the 1970's.
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Twisted Orchid
Gender: Female
My inner child is a mean little fuck
| | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 10 on 5/25/2011 6:14 PM >
| | | | Well preserved and wonderful shots. Nice work!
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tax_mouse
Location: SACRAMENTO, CA
Gender: Female
| | Re: St. Martin Parish, LA- Church in the woods
<Reply # 11 on 6/5/2011 6:23 PM >
| | | | Yea, I'd definitely say LAURIE too.
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