Creole Nature Trail
Sulphur, LA

A thriving community, the city of Sulphur rests on one of the country's major mineral deposits. Sulfur is a mineral used in a number of different industrial and medical processes, yet it lies in underground salt domes. Before the mineral deposits were discovered here in the late 1890s, the Italian city of Sicily had a virtual monopoly on the worldwide sulfur trade. So Louisiana's reserves provided an excellent opportunity for economic development within the United States. The sulfur mining ceased sometime in the mid-1920s, and these domes are now used by local industries in mining salt. The Brimstone Historical Society Museum and satellite tourist information center has a number of exhibits on the sulfur mining process.