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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM245T_cypress-swamps_Patterson-LA.html
Like redwoods, cypress trees can live a long time and grow to fantastic sizes. Prior to largescale logging, south Louisiana and the Atchafalaya Basin were full of large stands of giant cypress.Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees and swamps are iconic sy…
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Mississippi River levee breeches in the Morganza area between 1780 and 1890 resulted in 15 major floods affecting Pointe Coupée Parish and all those to the south as far as the Gulf of Mexico.Mississippi River levee breeches in the Morganza area betwe…
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The Flood Control Act of 1966 authorized the Teche-Vermilion Fresh Water Project, which provided funding for the construction of the system that now transfers water from the Atchafalaya River into Bayou Teche and the Vermilion River.Efforts to control water…
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The levee that surround this section of the lower Atchafalaya Floodway are about 15 miles apart and were built in the 1930s. Their construction- and the straightening of the Atchafalaya River in this area- forever changed the Atchafalaya Basin.The Atchafala…
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Annual flooding in the Acthafalaya Basin provides an ideal crawfish habitat. Today, most of Louisiana's crawfish production comes from farms,
but the Basin still leads in the production of wild-caught crawfish.The Atchafalaya Basin is one of the most ext…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM25KG_atchafalaya-river_Breaux-Bridge-LA.html
The Atchafalaya River is North America's fifth-largest river according to discharge and, together with the Mississippi, accounts for about 90 percent of the freshwater discharge into the Gulf of Mexico.The Atchafalaya River is North America's fifth-largest …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM25LN_bayou-courtableau_Washington-LA.html
The width of Bayou Courtableau at the Town of Washington was too narrow to maintain steamboat operations until a turning basin was completed in 1848, allowing steamboats to reverse course and head back downstream.Originally called the Opelousas River, Bayou…
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Steamboat travel was frequently affected by low water, immovable rafts of debris, underwater snags and shifting sandbars, including one at the junction of Bayou Courtableau and the Atchafalaya River called Le Petit Diable ("The Little Devil").Before signifi…
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Significant prehistoric flooding in this area of the Mississippi River occurred through the breaches in the river's natural levees along the Pointe Coupée coast, which was vulnerable to erosion and overtopping by floodwaters.The "Old Ferry Landi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM25QK_vermilion-river_Lafayette-LA.html
The Vermilion is a tidal river formed from the bottom up by Vermilion Bay tides and other natural actions that slowly eroded inland from the marshes and cheniers and through the Louisiana prairie.The Vermilion River, also known as Bayou Vermilion, is a 70-m…