Lecompte High School

Historical marker location:

1610 Veterans Drive, Lecompte, Louisiana

( Marker is on Veterans Drive west of Canal Street, on the right when traveling west.)

National Register of Historic Places 1992.

Louisiana was originally a French colony, named after King Louis XIV of France. The area was first explored by the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, in 1682.