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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BES_sugar-row-plantations_Schriever-LA.html
Sugarcane cultivation brought wealth to planters here along Bayou Black and present-day highway 311. A handful of mansions remain standing, flanked by majestic trees. The Sugar Row Plantations thrived during the decades following the end of slaver…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BEI_bayou-terrebonne_Houma-LA.html
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the bayou in front of you was Houma's busiest thoroughfare. You might have seen hunters, trappers and fisherman bringing seafood and animal hides to market. Boatmen hauled crops to inland railroad hubs. Profiteer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BE3_when-oysters-were-king_Houma-LA.html
European settlers found oysters abundant in coastal Louisiana. By 1890, enterprising Houma oystermen saw opportunity in the availability of ice, expanding railroads, and advances in canning. Oysters could now be shipped across the nation.Houma boo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BDP_new-acadia-nouvelle-acadie_Houma-LA.html
Over 2,500 Acadians settled in the
Spanish colony of Louisiana between 1764
and 1788, Although victims of the
Deportation, none were deported directly to
Louisiana.
Acadians made their way to Louisiana from
various locations. The first group…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BCI_the-grand-derangement-le-grand-derangement_Houma-LA.html
Panel 1 EnglishL'Acadie, established by France in 1604, was a
strategically located and highly coveted colony. In 1713, it
was handed over to England and renamed Nova Scotia. The
foundation of Halifax, in 1749, led part of the. Acadian
populat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A65_isles-dernieres_Gray-LA.html
English sideOver 200 persons were killed when a giant tidal wave hit last island, 45 miles south of Houma, on June 10, 1856. The resort was a playground for southern aristocrats. Fishermen (with boats) call it a Sportsman''s Paradise.French SideIS…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A15_mysteries-of-the-wetlands_Gray-LA.html
Slow-moving waters, exotic birds, buzzing insects, and underwater ripples reminds us that this is a wild place, as unpredictable as the shifting ground we stand upon.In these untamed wetlands - not quite solid land, not quite open water - what is …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26AU_yrf-4c-phantom-ii_Houma-LA.html
First entering service in 1960, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom I was designed as a U.S. Navy fleet defense fighter, and was soon adopted by the U.S. Air Force as a fighter-bomber. RF-4 Phantoms also proved capable high performance reconnaissance aircra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262J_terrebonne-basin_Houma-LA.html
The southern part of the Terrebonne Basin faces many challenges, including substantial subsidence, coastal erosion, marsh loss from sediment and saltwater intrusion. The Terrebonne Basin is part of the Lafourche Delta that formed between 800 to 2,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262H_bayou-petit-caillou_Chauvin-LA.html
Bald cypress swamps and freshwater marshes once thrived here, but natural and man-made changes to the hydrology eventually allowed salt water to begin encroaching into these delicate coastal bayous. Today they are tidal arms of the Gulf of Mexico.…