St. Francisville

St. Francisville's historic district, particularly along Royal Street, is dotted with markers identifying basic histories of various structures, most of them dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. The region's Anglo-Protestant edge, in contrast to the staunchly French-Catholic tenor of the River Road plantations, is evident in the prominent Grace Episcopal Church, sitting atop a hill in the center of town and surrounded by a peaceful, Spanish moss-shaded cemetery. The smaller (though older) Catholic cemetery is directly across a small fence from the Episcopal complex.