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, Sicily, Italy had a virtual monopoly in 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.