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    Pass Manchac Light was a historic lighthouse in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, which was originally established in 1838, to mark the north side of the entrance...
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    Lighthousefriends.com: Pass Manchac, LA, http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=809, accessed 1 Jun 2010. Pass Manchac at LighthouseFriends.com...
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    The South Pass Light, also known as the Port Eads Lighthouse South Point Light, or Gordon's Island Light, are a pair of lighthouses located on Gordon's...
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    Pass Lighthouse, or Sabine Pass Light as it was referred to by the United States Coast Guard, is a historic lighthouse, as part of a gulf coast light...
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    The Pass A L'Outre Light (or Pass a Loutre Light) is a defunct lighthouse in the Birdfoot Delta in Louisiana, United States, located near the mouth of...
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    The Ship Shoal Light is a screw-pile lighthouse located in the Gulf of Mexico southwest of the Isles Dernieres off the coast of Louisiana. It is currently...
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    The New Canal Light or (more commonly New Canal Lighthouse or New Basin Canal Lighthouse) was first established in 1838 at the north end of the New Basin...
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    Southwest Reef Light is a historic lighthouse built in 1856 at the end of Southwest Reef in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana to replace lightships which had...
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    building of the Southwest Pass Light. Trinity Shoal was marked with a lightvessel which was eventually replaced by a small automatic light. "Trinity Shoal Characteristic...
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    efforts to restore and stabilize the light. Rear light 1937 1918 1905 The original tower, c1860 West Rigolets Light former lighthousd also in St. Tammany...
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    The West Rigolets Light was a lighthouse which stood at the west end of the Rigolets where the channel meets Lake Pontchartrain. Built in 1855, it was...
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    The Chandeleur Island Light was a lighthouse established in 1848 near the northern end of the Chandeleur Islands in the Gulf of Mexico, off the east coast...
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    marked by the light was silting up, and a new light was erected to the north on Pass A L'Outre. The keeper of the Frank's Island Light moved to the new...
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  • lighthouse. New Canal Light eventually collapsed the following year and was rebuilt/relit by 2012. C.^ The jetty that the front light was on has since disappeared...
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    after 1923. This light was built in Stephen Pleasonton's administration, and the light was commonly referred as "Pleasonton's Light". While construction...
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    Pass Manchac Light...
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    Point Au Feu Reef. It replaced Southwest Reef Light as the entrance light for the Atchafalaya River. The light was deactivated and replaced by a skeleton...
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    15 mi (24 km) south of the city, on both the railroad and I–55, lies Port Manchac, which provides egress via Lake Pontchartrain to the Gulf of Mexico. The...
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    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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    Ramsey Savannah Little River Loggy Bayou Manchac Marsh Bayou Maurepas Swamp Old River Control Ouachita Pass A Loutre Pearl River Peason Ridge Pointe-aux-Chenes...
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    Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez, who defeated the British at Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Natchez in 1779, freeing the lower Mississippi Valley...
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    their highest levels since 1983. In addition, the levee along the Bayou Manchac broke, flooding roadways and more houses. Damage in Louisiana totaled to...
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    next morning, and Clark's expedition was driven all the way back to Pass Manchac, where they constructed Fort Stevens. On April 7, 1863, Clark led a handful...
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  • Americans. Galvez's army engaged and defeated the British in battles fought at Manchac and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Natchez, Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama, and...
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    Rouge, Louisiana - August 5, 1862. Operations against expedition from Pass Manchac and Ponchatuoula, Louisiana - September 13–15, 1862, Skirmish, Bayou...
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    Louisiana stormed and captured the small British frontier post on Bayou Manchac on 7 September 1779. Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Jean-Joseph Girouard served...
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    companies of the 20th Louisiana Infantry were detached to Fort Jackson, Pass Manchac, and Berwick. Companies B and E never returned to the regiment and both...
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