The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum in Madisonville is newly renamed the Maritime Museum Louisiana, and I stopped by the facility this morning to take pictures of the new signage. I visited for a few minutes with Jim MacPherson, the executive director of the museum, and he caught me up with a few of the ongoing activities.
The new name for the maritime museum
The top of the Pass Manchac Lighthouse is now on display
A plaque identifying the Pass Manchac lighthouse enclosure will soon be installed.
The lighthouse keeper's cottage from the Tchefuncte River lighthouse is located just east of the museum on the bank of the river.
A new roof was just put on the old lighthouse keepers cottage.
The lighthouse keeper's cottage that used to be located on the point of land just west of the mouth of the Tchefuncte River (shown below with lighthouse in the back left) is a little easier to get to these days.
The view across the river of Marina del Ray
In front of the musem are flags indicating the change in the name, and an old cannon.
