16. New Iberia City Park 20. Frederick Hotel 23. Alice Plantation & 300 Parkview Dr. | New Iberia 910 E. Main St. | New Iberia Bayside Plantation Dave brings Annie, Alafair, and later Old Jeanerette Rd., Hwy. 87 | Jeanerette The Frederick Hotel, while still retaining Bootsie here for crawfish boils, barbecues, traces of its original hotel grandeur, is now an “Just before the drawbridge, I could see Alice picnics and softball games. Home to office complex. The hotel was mentioned in Plantation, built in 1796, and farther on a “Devil’s Pond,” where visitors can feed Sunset Limited. the ducks while enjoying the wildlife. second antebellum home, one that is arguably among the most beautiful in the Deep South.” – The Glass Rainbow 17. Books Along The Teche These private homes can only be viewed from the highway. 106 E. Main St. | New Iberia 21. Episcopal Church Alice Plantation is a 200-plus-year-old home that was of the Epiphany once a bed and breakfast. Bayside is a plantation home The local bookstore where Burke fans can find signed 303 W. Main St. | New Iberia built in 1850 by Francis DuBose Richardson. Look for first editions of the Robicheaux novels as well as other the historical markers. modern bestsellers. Books Along the Teche’s owners, Consecrated in 1858 on land Howard and Lorraine Kingston, are the resident experts donated by plantation owner Harvey Hopkins, it is the oldest church building still in use in on anything and everything James Lee Burke. New Iberia. Dave goes to AA meetings here. Albania Plantation Mentioned in Heaven’s Prisoners. 24. Albania Rd. at LA 182 E. | Jeanerette Clementine Dining & Spirits Used in the filmIn the Electric Mist as a stand-in Dave Robicheaux’s 18. 113 E. Main St. | New Iberia location for Bayside Plantation, the home was Hometown Literary Festival 22. Spanish Lake built between 1837 and 1842 on 6,500 acres. “I put on my rain hat and walked downtown 117 Spanish Lake Rd. | New Iberia The home is currently owned by Hunt Slonem, the celebrated New York artist who created the 23 in the twilight. Customers here having Spanish Lake was named for the Spanish settlers who cross-hatched pattern of painting. To Loreauville & Lake Fausse Pointe 22 Spanish Lake drinks under the colonnade in front of took up residence along its banks. In 1863, Camp 86 N LEWIS ST 87 Pratt, a Confederate boot camp, was established along To St. Martinville 86 Clementine’s Restaurant, and across the EMILE VERRET RD its borders. Dave and Elrod Sykes, JANE ST Cypremort Point PARKVIEW DR street, at the Goughenheim Bed and DARBY LANE 25. INDEST ST 16 an alcoholic actor, see ghosts of DUPERIER ST 24 FRONT ST 306 Beach Ln. | Cypremort31 Point MARIE ST TECHE ST Breakfast, guests were enjoying the evening 9 Confederate soldiers and General John 15 To Jeanerette ST FULTON ST MEMORIAL DR BRIDGE on the balcony, and farther down the block a Hood Bell at the lake during a filming Cypremort Point is a sportsman’sCHESTNUT ST paradise 182 14 13 11 10 NELSON 18 12 HAIK CANAL RD EAST MAIN STREET of a movie in In the Electric Mist with withTo a Lafayette man-made beach whereWEST MAIN families STREET can ONE WAY 8 crowd was waiting under the colonnade to go 182 S LEWIS ST 21 20 19 17 Confederate Dead. In 1957, Dave meets experience the outdoors like Dave Robicheaux, who ritually 7 inside BoJangle’s.” the young Bootsie Mouton and falls in took his daughter Alafair to a fictional open-air restaurant at IBERIA ST FRENCH ST EAST ST PETER STREET – The Glass Rainbow JEFFERSON 182 love at a dance out at Spanish Lake. the Point. Mentioned in A Morning for Flamingos.ONE WAY James Lee WEST ST PETER STREET 6 JEFFERSONTERRACE BLVD 5 These locations are still open today. Burke’s FIELD ST PERSHING ST 4 23 PERSHING ST character hung his hat many a night here To Loreauville & Lake Fausse Pointe 3 22 Spanish Lake 86 N LEWIS ST CENTER STREET Burke’s DALE ST LANDRY DR and the bar is well-known for its antique IBERIA ST HOPKINS ST ANN ST JULIA ST 87 DALE ST WEEKS ST 14 BANKAVE beauty. Clementine, which was once Provost To St. Martinville 86 EAST ADMIRAL DOYLE DRIVE JANE ST EMILE VERRET RD 674 JEFFERSON TERRACE BLVD Café, might be the “poolroom” Robicheaux PARKVIEW DR DARBY LANE WEST ADMIRAL DOYLE DRIVE INDEST ST 16 frequents due to its location and description of DUPERIER ST 24 674 FRONT ST S LEWIS ST 31 MARIE ST TECHE ST 9 Iberia the mahogany bar in Heaven’s Prisoners. 15 To Jeanerette ST SUCROSE DR FULTON ST MEMORIAL DR BRIDGE CHESTNUT ST 182 On the trail of Detective FREYOU RD EMBER DR Held Annually 14 13 11 10 NELSON 18 12 HAIK CANAL RD HWY 83 EAST MAIN STREET To Cypremort WEEKS ISLAND RD To Lafayette WEST MAIN STREET ONE WAY 8 QUEEN CITY DR Point Dave Robicheaux 182 S LEWIS ST Acadiana 25 21 20 19 Regional 17 CURTIS LN 90E Victor’s Cafeteria 7 Airport VISITOR 19. 675 1 INFO OLDE SPANISH CENTER To Jeanerette TOWNE BLVD IBERIA ST HWY 83 109 W. Main St. | New Iberia FRENCH ST EAST ST PETER STREET JEFFERSON 182 3212 WEST ST PETER STREET ONE WAY 6 JEFFERSONTERRACE BLVD 5 Home of the Breakfast Club and Dave’s favorite lunch FIELD ST To Lydia, Weeks Island PERSHING ST 4 S LEWIS ST & Cypremort Point PERSHING ST To Lafayette CURTIS LN hangout, Victor’s Cafeteria is the only place in Iberia 329 3 90W Iberia ParishTo Port Convention & Visitors Bureau CENTER STREET of Iberia Parish where you can officially visit Dave’s bait shop. It is a DALE ST LANDRY DR IBERIA ST HOPKINS ST ANN ST JULIA ST DALE ST WEEKS ST BANKAVE 2513 Hwy 14 | New Iberia, LA 70560 popular Cajun downtown cafeteria-style eatery where Dave 14 To Avery Island EAST ADMIRAL DOYLE DRIVE 888-942-3742 | IberiaTravel.com 674 IberiaTravel.com is known to take prisoners to lunch from time to time. 2 JEFFERSON TERRACE BLVD WEST ADMIRAL DOYLE DRIVE To Delcambre 674 To Jefferson Island S LEWIS ST SUCROSE DR FREYOU RD EMBER DR HWY 83 To Cypremort WEEKS ISLAND RD Point Acadiana QUEEN CITY DR Regional 25 CURTIS LN Airport VISITOR 90E 675 1 INFO OLDE SPANISH CENTER To Jeanerette TOWNE BLVD 3212 HWY 83 To Lydia, Weeks Island S LEWIS ST & Cypremort Point To Lafayette CURTIS LN 329 To Port 90W of Iberia To Avery Island 2 To Delcambre To Jefferson Island Shadows-on-the-Teche 6. St. Peter’s Catholic 12. 317 E. Main St. | New Iberia 1. Iberia Parish Convention Church and Cemetery & Visitors Bureau 108 E. St. Peter St. | New Iberia “I drove down East Main under the arched live 2513 Hwy. 14 | New Iberia St. Peter’s Church was built in 1836 on land donated oaks that spanned the street, toward the Shadows, by the Frederick Duperier family. Church Alley a red brick and white-columned antebellum Start the Dave Robicheaux tour at the between Main Street and St. Peter Street was left open home built in 1831 on Bayou Teche.” official Iberia Parish Welcome Center. to fulfill the donation’s provision that the church be – Cadillac Jukebox visible from the Duperier home (located where Mt. Carmel is Built for a wealthy sugar planter, the Shadows-on-the- today). Dave’s wife Annie was Teche was home to four generations before becoming buried in his family plot at the a National Trust Historic Site. Live oaks draped with cemetery in Heaven’s Prisoners. Burke House Spanish moss cast shadows on the house, gardens 10. and Bayou Teche. Guided tours available. 715 E. Main St. | New Iberia 2. Tabasco® Factory 4. Iberia Parish CourtHouse Hwy. 329 | Avery Island 300 S. Iberia St. | New Iberia “It was a fine house in which to live, P.R. Burke’s Office “But he got both of us fired at the hot- In earlier novels, Dave’s office was located at the Bon Creole cool in the summer and warm in the winter, 13. 7. 223 E. Main St. | New Iberia sauce factory, since the owner couldn’t tell courthouse. He also shared it with Special Agent Rosie 1409 E. St. Peter St. | New Iberia the ceiling—high outfitted with ventilated Gomez in In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead. us apart, when he tried to wash bottles en One of Dave’s local eateries, he could often be found storm shutters, our new veranda a grand “We crossed the drawbridge over Bayou Teche. masse by filling a dozen gunny sacks with here chowing down on shrimp po-boy sandwiches. For place to sit in wooden rockers among our The water was brown and high, the dragonflies instance, in he stops here during a them and weighting them down in the Pegasus Descending potted plants and house pets.” flicked over the lily pads in the sunlight. Close case. This hole-in-the-wall lunch – The Glass Rainbow bayou’s current.” New Iberia Amtrak Station along the banks I could see the armored backs of –The Neon Rain 5. counter has been a favorite of both 402 Washington St. | New Iberia locals and visitors for years. James Lee Burke’s grandfather, Walter Burke, lived here. gars turning in the shade of the cypress trees.” The Avery Island experience allows guests to sample As a youth, Burke visited his grandparents, played along - Heaven’s Prisoners the best Cajun dishes on a TABASCO® Food Tour, “The Amtrak still ran on the Old Southern the banks of the Bayou Teche and fixed in his mind the ® James Lee Burke’s cousin owns and see the TABASCO Factory like never before with an Pacific Roadbed that carried my mother romantic image of New Iberia that pervades his books.