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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BSU_lecompte-high-school_Lecompte-LA.html
Built in 1924, the Lecompte High School is a significant historic landmark of Bayou Boeuf. It's Neo-Classical style was designed by architect Scott Yeager, Jr., built by general contractor W. J. Quick. Lecompte High served the educational needs of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27NP_oakland-plantation_Lecompte-LA.html
In the early 1800's Josiah Chambers
purchased 6,000 acres. His son, Josiah
Chambers, Jr., upgraded the property, built a race track and developed
transportation links via roads, bayou
navigation and railroad, eventually
expanding to almost 10…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26NV_smiths-landing_Lecompte-LA.html
A trading post developed at this site on Bayou Boeuf in the early nineteenth century was known as White's Landing. The landing was well used, but the bayou was an unreliable means of transportation for planters to get their crops to market due to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26NL_town-of-lecompte_Lecompte-LA.html
Lecompte began as a trading post on land claimed by Pascogoula Biloxi Indian Tribes living along Bayou Boeuf. Two area men, Fulton and Miller, traded extensively with the Indians who became indebted to them. To pay the debt the tribes agreed to se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MYF_the-name-lecompte_Lecompte-LA.html
In 1854 the residents of Smith's Landing, a small trading post on historic Bayou Boeuf renamed their settlement LECOMTE for a famous horse. LECOMTE was owned by Thomas Jefferson and Montfort Wells, area plantation owners. LECOMTE won his first rac…