Fortyeight Mile Point
Fortyeight Mile Point is a cape in Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Fortyeight Mile Point is situated nearby to the hamlet Garyville, as well as near Mount Airy.Places of Interest
Highlights include Evergreen Plantation and Whitney Plantation Historic District.
Evergreen Plantation
Photo: Clément Bardot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, near Wallace, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18.
Whitney Plantation Historic District
Museum
Photo: Bill Leiser, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Whitney Plantation Historic District is preserved by the Whitney Institute, a non-profit whose mission is to educate the public about the history and legacies of slavery in the Southern United States. Whitney Plantation Historic District is situated 2 miles west of Fortyeight Mile Point.
Garyville Refinery
Factory
The Garyville Refinery is the 4th largest American oil refinery with a nameplate capacity of 597,000 barrels per day. Garyville Refinery operations consist of crude distillation, hydrocracking, catalytic cracking, hydrotreating, catalytic reforming, alkylation, sulfur recovery, and coking. Garyville Refinery is situated 2½ miles northeast of Fortyeight Mile Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edgard and Gramercy.
Edgard
Village
Photo: Clem, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Edgard is a census-designated place in, and the parish seat of, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,637 at the 2000 census and 1,948 in 2020. Edgard is situated 3½ miles east of Fortyeight Mile Point.
Gramercy
Town
Photo: Louisiana GOHSEP, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gramercy is a town in the U.S. state of Louisiana, in St. James Parish. It is part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area. The population was 3,613 at the time of the 2010 U.S. census and 3,188 according to the 2020 population estimates program. Gramercy is situated 4 miles west of Fortyeight Mile Point.
Lutcher
Town
Lutcher is a town in St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the east bank of the Mississippi River. It is part of the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area. Lutcher is situated 4½ miles west of Fortyeight Mile Point.
Fortyeight Mile Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in St. John the Baptist Parish, United States of America
- Category: landform
- Location: Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
“Fortyeight Mile Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fortyeight Mile Point”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Garyville and Mount Airy.
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