Heather Blanchard, vice president of Friends of the Lock, describes her plans to add native vegetation to the land surrounding the Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site on Thursday, June 5, 2025.

The Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site celebrated its grand re-opening on Friday, June 13, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The lock site has been under renovation for 18 months.

Driving east toward the sun I stopped along the mighty Mississippi. The water was high and moving fast. Even today, the Mississippi River is a major transportation route, over a half a billion ...

The Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site is located at 57730 Main Street in Plaquemine. For more information, visit Friends of the Lock’s website. Click here to report a typo.

The site was turned over to the state in 1978 and $2.5 million was allocated to create the Plaquemine Lock Historic Site, which reopened in 1982. But budget problems over the years put the lock ...

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Attractions include the Plaquemine Lock Historic Site, Barker's Pharmacy, which is the oldest in the state, and the sprawling Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church, dubbed "The Cathedral on ...

By the numbers. The building, completed in 1909, is part of the Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site and sparkles in its white-tiled glory. The lockhouse reopens as a museum at 9 a.m. Friday ...