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	Bayou Lafourche
		The earliest record of any ancestor of the Biloxi-Chitimacha Indians on Bayou Lafourche is contained in the land purchase of Genevieve Magnon (Magneau, Mayon) on 16 April 1827 when she bought the land of Paulin Verret, which was bounded above by Antoine Besse and below by Girod Brothers.
		According to the family, Charles Alexander Billiot went to Bayou Lafourche before 1900 from Pointe-aux-Chene to trap on a share basis - his share was 35%, with 65% going to the land owner.
		During WW II many Indians from Bayou Lafourche went to the west bank of Jefferson Parish and the general New Orleans area, where they found employment and non-segregated schooling for their children, and their descendants have remained there.
	www.biloxi-chitimacha.com /bayou_lafourche.htm (2197 words)

	Bayou Lafourche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bayou Lafourche is a bayou in southeastern Louisiana, United States, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
		The name Lafourche is from the French word for "fork", and alludes to the bayou's large outflow of Mississippi River water.
		The bayou is paralleled by Louisiana Highway 1 on the west, and on the east by Louisiana Highway 308.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bayou_Lafourche (232 words)

	Coastal America: Coastal Restoration and Protection Projects
		From an historic perspective, the damming of Bayou Lafourche in 1904, at the Mississippi River, began the degradation of the significance of the stream in the eyes of the public.
		This initiative is geared to capitalize on the public's current concern, utilizing the bayou, with its cultural and historic significance as a means of uniting residents along the entire stream to support necessary efforts to save vitally important fish, wildlife, and other wetland-related economic and environmental resources on the verge of collapse.
		PROPOSAL OBJECTIVES — The main objective of this proposal is to reestablish the residents of Bayou Lafourche as a unified community that understands sustainable development and recognizes the economic value of a clean usable channel.
	www.coastalamerica.gov /text/regions/gm/bayou.html (672 words)

	Lafourche.com: The Area
		Bayou Lafourche, which wends its way 100 miles from the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, was first home to the Chitimacha Indians.
		Lafourche was one of the original 12 counties of Louisiana when it became a U.S. territory.
		The Bayou Lafourche area has produced a chief justice of the United States Supreme Court: Edward Douglass White, who served as an associate justice from 1894-1910 and chief justice from 1910-1921, was born near Thibodaux in what is now the St. John community.
	lafourche.com /area.htm (1078 words)

	Assumption Parish Area Chamber Of Commerce
		Bayou Lafourche is 107 miles long and is presently navigable from Thibodaux to Belle Pass at the Gulf of Mexico.
		It is bordered on the north by Iberville and Ascension Parishes, on the east by St. James and Lafourche Parishes, on the south by Terrebonne and St. Mary Parishes, and on the west by St. Martin and Iberia Parishes.
		The most valuable land of the parish lies along Bayou Lafourche, extending back some 80 to 100 acres; no better land than this is to be found in the state.
	www.assumptionchamber.org /workinglivinginassumption.html (1711 words)

	BTNEP - Trip #16
		Lafourche means "the fork" because Bayou Lafourche was once a main fork of the Mississippi River.
		By 1903, Bayou Lafourche had greatly decreased in flow and was cut off from the Mississippi River by the construction of a levee at Donaldsonville.
		Bayou Lafourche does carry sediment from the Mississippi River to coastal areas, however, much of the heavier sediment drops out within miles of the pumping station.
	www.btnep.org /fieldtrip/trip16.htm (448 words)

	LaFourche Chamber
		The Chamber of Lafourche and the Bayou Region is a membership driven, nonprofit organization of businesses and professionals who work together to strengthen the business climate and the quality of life.
		The Chamber was formed in July, 1994 as a result of the merger of the Central Lafourche and South Lafourche Chambers of Commerce.
		Lafourche Parish, also known as "The Longest Street in the World", connects the communities of Thibodaux, Raceland, Mathews, Lockport, Larose, Cut Off, Galliano, Golden Meadow, Leeville and Port Fourchon.
	www.lafourchechamber.com (194 words)

	Lafourche Parish Government Website
		Lafourche Parish (French for "the fork") was named after Bayou Lafourche, which forms a fork where it flows out of the Mississippi River in Ascension Parish and runs the length of the Parish into the Gulf of Mexico.
		Bayou Lafourche is known as the "Longest Street in the World" because of its 77 continuous miles of homes spaced so closely together along the bayou.
		The population of Lafourche Parish is approximately 90,255.
	www.lafourchegov.org /lafourchegov/AboutLafourche.aspx (371 words)

	About the Daily Comet \| DailyComet.com \| Daily Comet \| Thibodaux, LA
		Bayou Lafourche is geographically and culturally at the center of the communities served by the Daily Comet.
		Until the early part of the 20th century, the entire length of the bayou was an active artery of commerce for steamboats traveling from the river to the communities which stretched down to the Gulf of Mexico, with Thibodaux serving as the queen city of the bayou.
		It is said that at one time, residents along the bayou were able to pass along news from neighbor to neighbor for a stretch of 40 miles, without anyone ever leaving their front porch.
	www.dailycomet.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/SERVICES02/212100002 (690 words)

	Louisiana101.com - Parish Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lafourche is considered to have the longest line village in the world- 65 miles of farms and homes fronting Bayou Lafourche, from Thibodaux to Leesville.
		The parish name comes from the Frech word for "fork", and was named for Bayou Lafourche.
		Lafourche has a total of 1,084.8 square miles.
	www.louisiana101.com /p_lafourche.html (106 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Travel
		"Bayou" is a Choctaw Indian word meaning sluggish, slow-moving stream, and this one, Bayou Lafourche, is maybe 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep, situated about an hour and a half southwest of New Orleans.
		The trip down Bayou Lafourche is dazzling but tedious, with Tee Tim, dressed in yellow slicker overalls, lifting traps every few minutes and sorting blue crabs and stone crabs into wooden crates, then rebaiting with pogie fish.
		Traveling in the bayou country atop boat decks has changed all that for me. It's changed me. It's allowed me to be closer – in every imaginable way – to the Cajun people through whose world I've journeyed, and in the process, I've come to care deeply about them and their land.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/travel/destinations/bayou082299.htm (4341 words)

	Draft_Feas_Planning_Process
		The Morganza to the Gulf feasibility study is comprised of the area between Louisiana Highway 311 and Bayou du Large to the west, and Bayou Lafourche from Thibodaux southeast toward the Gulf of Mexico.
		The major streams affecting the study area are the Mississippi River and Bayou Lafourche in the east and the Atchafalaya River in the west.
		The levees begin southeast of the intersection of Bayou Lafourche and the GIWW at the Larose to Golden Meadow Levee, and proceed along the eastern bank of Grand Bayou.
	www.mvn.usace.army.mil /prj/mtog/Planning_Process.htm (16077 words)

	Lafourche Tourism
		The history of Bayou Lafourche can best be told by recounting the history of the French, Spanish, English and German speaking families who settled its banks in the early 1700's.
		Early settlers explored a descending fork of the Mississippi River that mapmakers had named "LaFourche Des Chetimachas." This distributary bayou, its name soon shortened to "LaFourche" served the early settlers well as a means of communication, a method of transportation, and a source of fresh water.
		of Lafourche may be forgiven for being proud: for at one time he was the "poor folks" of the swamps.
	www.visitlafourche.com /history.htm (445 words)

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		In 1843 the Lafourche circuit became part of the New Orleans District, where William Winans was the presiding elder.
		The Lafourche Colored Mission was formed to reach the slave population of the area.
		Since Lafourche (and Terrebonne) were on a larger circuit, this meant that the visits from the pastor were even less frequent.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /history/hist4.htm (14263 words)

	A Chateau on the Bayou
		Rest in the hammock and watch the bayou flow slowly by or rock in the comfortable rockers on the back porch.
		Catch sight of a bald eagle soaring over the bayou where fish are jumping.
		Bayou Lafourche still flows in the same path today.
	www.achateauonthebayou.com /index.html (339 words)

	Environmental survey seeks source of bacteria in Bayou Lafourche \| News for New Orleans, Louisiana \| Local News \| News ...
		HOUMA, La.-- Bacterial contamination has made it more expensive to treat drinking water from Bayou Lafourche and made the bayou unsuitable for recreational use, so state environmental officials are launching a survey to find the cause.
		The bayou has higher levels of the fecal coliform bacteria, commonly found in human and animal waste, than any body of water in the state.
		Bayou Lafourche provides drinking water for most of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.
	www.wwltv.com /local/stories/wwl081307jbbayou.2f181062.html (381 words)

	The lucky escape of Bayou Lafourche. - By Mike Pesca - Slate Magazine
		The other day I drove south to Bayou Lafourche—a part of the Lafourche parish* that is as close to the Gulf of Mexico as you can get without a police escort or a boat—to see the effects of Katrina.
		Bourg says his bayou's system is a model studied by other communities as the ideal, but still, they are not designed to hold up to any hurricane beyond a category 3.
		In fact, Bayou Lafourche is a bayou in the parish of Lafourche.
	www.slate.com /id/2125708 (873 words)

	Bayou Lafourche Cookbook - Cooking Louisiana
		The cookbook, "Bayou Lafourche", has 791 old and new Cajun recipes, some very old and simple to prepare.
		Our Cajun friends and family love the memories the Bayou Lafourche recipes bring to mind of their childhood in Southeast Louisiana.
		Bayou Lafourche is an attractive colorful hardcover 3-ring binder, and sells for $20.00 plus $5.00 sandh.
	www.cookinglouisiana.com /Cookbooks/Bayou_Lafourche_Cookbook.htm (435 words)

	Town of Lockport, Louisiana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1823 William Field purchased a parcel of the land and later donated 5 arpents of it on both banks of Bayou Lafourche to Barataria and Lafourche Canal Company.
		Three years later locks were completed at the point where the canal reached Bayou Lafourche.
		At the turn of the century, the village boasted a post office, brick sidewalks, an iron bridge over the bayou, a newspaper, ice house, banks, hotels, liveries, flsmith shop, clothing stores, grocery and general merchandise stores, and various other enterprises.
	www.townoflockport.com /history.htm (448 words)

	Lafourche Parish: Thibodaux: Cut Off: Raceland: Bayou Lafourche (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Created in 1807, Lafourche was one of the original nineteen parishes in Louisiana.
		With fertile land and a navigable bayou, there was little difficulty in attracting settlers.
		Lafourche Parish currently boasts a population of nearly 86,000 and occupies 1,471 square miles, with 387 miles consisting of water.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /03a_Cultural_Tourism_Files/02.1_Acadiana_Parishes/Lafourche_Parish.html (225 words)

	Coastal Correspondent Volume 13- MarshMission.com
		Lafourche is French for “the fork.” Bayou Lafourche was once a fork of the Mississippi River.
		Since none of these plants can purify bayou water that has too much salt, it is the southernmost one at Lockport, which is closest to the Gulf, that most often has a problem with salt water intrusion.
		Since the high, well drained soil of the bayou’s natural levee is a narrow strip of land next to the bayou, the towns and communities along it are also narrow and form what are know as strip settlements.
	www.marshmission.com /coastal_correspondent/volume13.htm (1700 words)

	Lafourche Tourism
		A visit, call or e-mail to the Lafourche Parish Visitor Center located on Hwy.1 and U.S.90 along Bayou Lafourche can provide information about things to see and do throughout the area.
		Bayou Lafourche affords a picturesque scenic drive as it meanders south to the Gulf of Mexico.
		The bayou itself changes from a lazy, slow moving stream surrounded by sugar cane fields, to a widened, quick, vibrant and busy waterway.
	www.lafourche-tourism.org /attractions.php (1053 words)

	History
		The Acadians at Bayou des Ecors in the Felicianas, who had arrived from France in 1785, were allowed by the Spanish Governor to come to the bayou country because their crops had been destroyed for three years in succession and they were being harassed by neighboring Indians who stole their livestock.
		In this paper the attempt is made to present Lafourche Parish as a part of the scene in Louisiana at the approximate time the Indians were making their first contacts with the early European explorers at about the year 1700.
		Bayou Lafourche was so heavily inhabited by these Indians that Martin recorded "Iberville on ascending the Mississippi River saw it forked; one leading to the east, two to the west, called the fork of the Chitimachas."
	www.biloxi-chitimacha.com /history.htm (11000 words)

	Young-Sanders Center
		Major: I have the honor to report that this morning at 6 o’clock I dispatched Colonel Birge, in command of his regiment (the Thirteenth Connecticut), Barrett’s cavalry, and one section of Carruth’s battery, down the Bayou La Fourche to open communication with the city.
		Believing that the enemy would, by means of the numerous flat-boat ferries which I knew were in the bayou, probably cross from one side of the bayou to the other, I took in tow a flat-boat bridge and carried it with me all the way, and have it with me now.
		I immediately swung by bridge across the bayou, ordering eight companies of the Twelfth Connecticut over to support the Eight New Hampshire, leaving two companies of this regiment, one section of Carruth’s battery, and Williamson’s cavalry to guard the rear.
	www.youngsanders.org /youngsandersbayoulafourche.html (1337 words)

	HEBERT Genealogy: HEBERT's in Lafourche-Terrebonne
		One of the larger Hebert families of Bayou Lafourche was by Pierre Hebert and Suzanne Pitre.
		HEBERTs in the 1795 Census of the "Bayou of Valenzuela"
		HEBERTs in the 1797 Census of Valenzuela in Lafourche
	www.acadian-cajun.com /hebla5.htm (450 words)

	LPSB \| School System Information
		Lafourche Parish, southwest of New Orleans along the banks of Bayou Lafourche, is a part of Acadiana, or French Louisiana, home of the Cajun people.
		Bayou Lafourche, and therefore the parish, get their names from the Cajun French "La Fourche" meaning "fork" used to describe how the bayou was once a descending fork of the Mississippi River.
		In Lafourche Parish, Bayou Lafourche is often used as a point of reference when giving directions.
	lafourche.k12.la.us /info.asp (396 words)

	Lafourche Chamber
		Lafourche Parish, also known as,The Longest Street in the World,connects the communities of Thibodaux, Raceland, Mathews, Lockport, Larose, Cut Off, Galliano, Golden Meadow, Leeville and Port Fourchon.
		The Chamber of Lafourche and the Bayou Region stays involved with each community through events and the Chamber Staff visits the local businesses.
		The Chamber serves as a catalyst to organize and direct the energies of those who believe that a community worth living in is a community worth investing in to make it better.
	www.lafourchechamber.com /about.php (348 words)

	City of Thibodaux, Louisiana - Grants - Economic Development - Discover Thibodaux
		The Lafourche Parish Public Library is housed in the upper level of the Jean Lafitte Center while the lower level is dedicated to the Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center where visitors can learn about Thibodaux’s unique culture and heritage.
		The bayou became their chief means of commerce and is referred to as the "Longest main street in the world." Transportation, communication and fresh water made early Thibodaux a thriving trade center.
		It's southern hospitality at it’s best with popular bayou side restaurants, golf course, 8 recreational parks, 2 major hotel chains, and the City’s Civic Center which is home to music, antiques, basketball, RV hook-ups and other fun events.
	ci.thibodaux.la.us /ecodev/discover.asp (760 words)

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