Orange Grove

Historical marker location:

4107 Bayou Black Drive, Houma, Louisiana

( Marker is on Bayou Black Road (State Highway 182) 0.2 miles north of Daneco Court, on the right when traveling south.)

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.