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During early settlement and into the Antebellum Period, the Vermilion was an important secondary waterway for steamboats carrying agricultural products to New Orleans, the east coast and, eventually the world.The Vermilion River, also known as Bayou Vermili…
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This otherwise flat region, sloping, hill-like formations are visible and represent the Mississippi River escarpment (bluff-like shelf) that divides this area into floodplain and prairie. The Vermilion River flows at the base of this escarpment.François Co…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 2,500 years …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM262N_bayou-teche_Jeanerette-LA.html
According to Chitimacha legend, the imprint of a giant dying snake was left in the soil, and later became the twisty Bayou Teche as it filled in with water.No one knows exactly how the 125-mile Bayou Teche got its name, but according to one popular legend, …
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At its peak, Franklin was the largest steamboat port on Bayou Teche, a major early transportation route that directly influenced early English settlers here.Throughout the 1800s, the 125-mile Bayou Teche was the main transportation route through this region…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM26D8_lake-fausse-point_Saint-Martinville-LA.html
Once connected to the Atchafalaya River, Lake Fausse Pointe was cut off from the river's flow and sediment deposits once the Atchafalaya Basin levees were completed in the 1930s. The lake's shape has remained the same ever since.Though named as two separate…
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Numerous towns, villages and cities border Bayou Teche and serve as reminders of the waterway's importance as an early transportation corridor.Central to the ecology, economy and spirit of Louisiana is the network of waterways—rivers, bayous, floodway…
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Because movement here in the late 1800s was easier by water than by land, many daily activities occurred on or along Bayou Teche, including transportation, trade, and mail delivery.Bayou Teche is an ancient channel of the Mississippi River, which flowed thr…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM26PF_red-river_Marksville-LA.html
Located on Red River 11 miles upstream from Marksville, Lock & Dam #1 is the first of five locks used to manage transportation from Shreveport to the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers.The Red River is 1,360 miles long and originates in the states of Texas …
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The Three Rivers Confluence is where the Red River, Old River and the Atchafalaya River meet and combine the distributary outflow of the Mississippi River with the Atchafalaya Basin. This complex intersection is the origin of the Atchafalaya River Basin.The…