Boat House

Boat House (HM28A7)

Location: Avery Island, LA 70513 Iberia Parish
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N 29° 54.573', W 91° 54.947'

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This structure is known as the Ward Boathouse. Like Edward
Avery Mclhenny, Charles Willis Ward (1856-1920) ran a
plant nursery and was an avid conservationist. Around 1910,
Mclhenny and Ward met, and with Mclhenny''s permission
Ward set up a hunting and fishing camp in Jungle Gardens.
Ward brought along a 72-foot luxury motorboat, the Ethel M.
Ward, for which Mcllhenny built this boathouse. Together,
the two men bought 54,000 acres of coastal marshland
southwest of Avery Island. In 1911, they gave 13,000 acres
of this land to the state of Louisiana as a waterfowl refuge
The donation was called the Ward-McIlhenny State Wildlife
Refuge, but is now simply known as State Wildlife Refuge. (Marker Number 4.)
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HM NumberHM28A7
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Date Added Saturday, June 9th, 2018 at 4:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)15R E 604668 N 3309256
Decimal Degrees29.90955000, -91.91578333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 29° 54.573', W 91° 54.947'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds29° 54' 34.38" N, 91° 54' 56.82" W
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Area Code(s)337
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Unnamed Road, Avery Island LA 70513, US
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