St. Michael's is celebrating its 175th anniversary in 2008. It was built entirely of local building materials. The bricks were handmade on the place from Mississippi River mud. The interior cypress columns, walls etc. were carved from cypress cut in the swamps behind the Church.
This Church has more statues in it than any Church in Louisiana.
It also has a grotto behind the main altar that is very similiar to Lourdes. The mountainside of rocks was made from sugar cane bagasse. It is a shrine donated in the 1800's by a local plantation owner, Christophe Colomb, as a petition for help in finding his lost son.