• Bayou Manchac is an 18-mile-long (29 km) bayou in southeast Louisiana, USA. First called the Iberville River ("rivière d'Iberville") by its French discoverers...
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    Bute, was established in 1763 at the junction of the Iberville River (Bayou Manchac) with the Mississippi River, and remained an important military and...
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    confluence of Bayou Manchac with the Mississippi River and was named in honor of the Earl of Bute. Fort Bute was located on Bayou Manchac, about 115 miles...
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  • incorporation by a 4-3 decision. After the French and Indian War ended in 1763, Bayou Manchac (originally known as Rivière d'Iberville or the Iberville River) became...
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  • Catherine Lake Pontchartrain Lacombe Bayou Tchefuncte River Bogue Falaya Abita River Tangipahoa River Sims Creek Pass Manchac Lake Maurepas Tickfaw River Natalbany...
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    Louisiana (redirect from The Bayou State)
    between, the northern border of eastern Louisiana was the course of Bayou Manchac and the middle of Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain. From 1824 to...
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    Brake and Saline Bayou. Cunningham Brake is a large cypress-tupelo gum swamp that also protects flows in Kisatchie Bayou. Saline Bayou has mixed forests...
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    Spanish Louisiana stormed and captured the small British frontier post on Bayou Manchac on September 7, 1779. Spain's formal declaration of war against Britain...
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    Acadian volunteers and captured the British strongholds of Fort Bute at Bayou Manchac, across from the Acadian settlement at St. Gabriel. On September 7,...
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    the Mississippi River, approximately 12 miles south of Baton Rouge. Bayou Manchac serves as the official boundary between St. Gabriel, Ascension Parish...
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    Gulf of Mexico, Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, the Amite River, and Bayou Manchac, previously known as Iberville River. The Isle of Orleans was included...
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    Alligator Bayou Amite River Amite River Diversion Canal Anderson Canal Babin Canal Bayou Antoine Bayou Manchac Bayou Narcisse Bayou Pierre Bayou Reponds...
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    rear." There are two areas in Louisiana that carry that name: Manchac Pass and Bayou Manchac. However, another theory holds that Manchaca Springs was named...
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    Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, this marker was at a site five miles above Bayou Manchac on the Mississippi's east bank. The area developed as a trading post...
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    total occupation area extended for more than three miles (5 km) along the Bayou Macon. The earthworks include six concentric, C-shaped ridges that extend...
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    Hwy, and Sherwood Forest Blvd/Siegen Lane before exiting the city at Bayou Manchac. U.S. 61/190 Business runs west along Florida Boulevard (known as Florida...
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    (Spanish: [ˈbiʝa ðe ˈɣalβes]), is a ghost town located at the confluence of Bayou Manchac and the Amite River in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Galveztown was established...
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    of which 15 sq mi (39 km2) (3.2%) are covered by water. Amite River Bayou Manchac Comite River Mississippi River Thompson Creek Interstate 10 * Interstate...
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    the channel by levees) along the Amite River and Mississippi River, Bayou Manchac provided shallow-water access between Springfield and Baton Rouge. By...
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  • Location Original air date U.S. viewers (millions) 9 1 "Voodoo on the Bayou" Manchac, Louisiana June 21, 2019 (2019-06-21) 0.488 The Tennessee Wraith Chasers...
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    of the Mississippi River except for Île d'Orléans, the area south of Bayou Manchac and the Amite River that included the city of New Orleans. The British...
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  • Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge is a 23,000-acre (93 km2) region of fresh and brackish marshes located within the city limits of New Orleans. It...
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    Blacktop Run (2020) Marti Jones "Used Guitars" (1988) Zachary Richard "Manchac" (1988) Marshall Crenshaw's "Good Evening" (1989) John Mayall's "A Sense...
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    or state agencies. Some of these parks include Lac des Allemands, Saline Bayou, and Black Lake. During the 1970s, government management of the state parks...
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    Indian Bayou Jackson Bienville J. C. "Sonny" Gilbert Wildlife Management Area Joyce Lake Boeuf Lake Ramsey Savannah Little River Loggy Bayou Manchac Marsh...
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    Indian Bayou Jackson Bienville J. C. "Sonny" Gilbert Wildlife Management Area Joyce Lake Boeuf Lake Ramsey Savannah Little River Loggy Bayou Manchac Marsh...
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  • Indian Bayou Jackson Bienville J. C. "Sonny" Gilbert Wildlife Management Area Joyce Lake Boeuf Lake Ramsey Savannah Little River Loggy Bayou Manchac Marsh...
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    Indian Bayou Jackson Bienville J. C. "Sonny" Gilbert Wildlife Management Area Joyce Lake Boeuf Lake Ramsey Savannah Little River Loggy Bayou Manchac Marsh...
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    (USA), located where the Houston River joins the Calcasieu River and Indian Bayou. It consists of 1,087 acres (440 ha) of woodlands, lakes and rivers. Prominent...
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  • Bodcau Creek (Bodcau Bayou), averaging 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in width, from the Arkansas line 30 miles (48 km) to just downstream of the Bayou Bodcau Dam and Reservoir...
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