Stan Routh
Painter and Illustrator
Baton Rouge, La.

Plaquemine Lock Stan Routh

I've done over a hundred drawings and paintings in Iberville Parish since the Bicentennial Commission asked me to do a series for a fundraising project they had back in 1974; and of all the things I ve done probably the Plaquemine Lock and its Administration Building are

Bayou Plaquemine, Stan Routh Courtesy of Iberville Parish Police Jury

symbolic to me of Iberville Parish because that's the point that the Plaquemine Bayou connected with the Mississippi River and opened the Atchafalaya. Combined with the Lafourche Bayou in Donaldsonville opened up Louisiana by water to all of the settlers that came in; and that Lock and its structure, allowing the moving of River traffic, with a changing water level, just to me symbolizes Iberville Parish.