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HISTORICAL INFORMATION ON SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

©  By W. T. Block      (click here for W. T. Block web page)

The following articles were generously offered by W. T. (Bill) Block in October, 2005 to be used as part of our history presentation for Southwest Louisiana. I was happy to receive the material and have finally published it to our LaGenWeb Calcasieu Parish web site. I want to personally thank Bill for his generosity.
Bryant Walker

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  2. Bon Ami, Beauregard Parish: A Thriving Mill Town
  3. Texas/Louisiana border relocated east during survey
  4. The Battle of Calcasieu Pass
  5. Lieutenant Frederick Crocker's Daring Calcasieu Raid
  6. Capt. Daniel Goos: An Early Lake Charles Sawmiller
  7. A Glimpse of Deridder, Louisiana, Between 1904 and 1908
  8. Gulf Lumber Company of Fullerton, Louisiana:
  9. The Last Voyage of the Hotspur
  10. Civil War Jayhawkers Of Confederate Louisiana
  11. October 12, 1886: The night that Johnson's Bayou, La. died
  12. The Legacy of Jean Lafitte in Southwest Louisiana
  13. Early Sawmilling at Lake Charles, Louisiana
  14. A Glimpse of Leesville, Louisiana between 1905-1908
  15. The Longville, Louisiana Sawmill
  16. The early sawmills at Stables and Loring, Louisiana
  17. Ludington, Louisiana: A ghost town of Beauregard Parish
  18. A Glimpse of Merryville, Louisiana between 1906-1908
  19. Murder in the Muskrat Camp
  20. Opelousas Trail: Bellowing cows marked first trail to New Orleans
  21. Shellbank, Louisiana: The Legend of Pavell's Island
  22. Early River Boats of Southwest Louisiana
  23. Samuel P. Henry: Father of Cameron Parish
  24. Skull Island on Mermentau River
  25. Pirate Lafitte, Bowie dealt in slave trade via SE Texas
  26. Southwest Louisiana History found in the Beaumont Enterprise
  27. Treasure Sites of Imperial Calcasieu Parish
  28. Westlake, Pineville, Edna and Orange, Louisiana - Early Sawmills
  29. A Calcasieu Parish Tragedy
  30. A Glimpse of Oakdale between 1890 and 1925
  31. A History of Channelization of Calcasieu River
  32. DeQuincy: Once the Turpentine Capitol of Louisiana
  33. Lake Charles is proud of its Alamo Hero
  34. "Leather Britches" Smith and the Grabow Riot
  35. Murder in a lonely Rice Field
  36. The Calcasieu River Guards its Secrets
  37. Cameron, LA.: Tevis called it the Enchanted City
  38. Grand Chenier Indian Survived Storms
  39. Jasper: The Albino Buck Deer on Penitentary Ridge
  40. Letter from Lower Louisiana
  41. "One Rat Hide an Acre" — Cameron Parish in 1928
  42. Some Notes about Early Grand Chenier, Louisiana
  43. The Story of the Calcasieu River Light House
  44. The Recollections of a Grand Chenier Native
  45. Three Frenchmen Had Great Surplus of Years
  46. "Toots" Lute: Cameron Parish's Artist in Clay
  47. A Glimpse of Mansfield, Louisiana, in 1908
  48. Jules Victor Bouquet: An Acadian Cavalryman