Since the weather was good today Terri and I decided to take our dog for a walk down along Bayou Boeuf. There was plenty of action in the bayou as we seemed to be interrupting the turtles as the sun bathed on the rocks and fallen branches in the water.
As you know I like to include a little history along with these photo features. If you look up Bayou Boeuf online you can find out a lot about Solomon Northup whose merroir Twelve Years A Slave chronicles his abduction in New York, being sold into slavery, and his days as a slave toiling along the bayou. Eventually Northup was freed with the help of a man named Samuel Bass.
As for the waterway itself is concerned there is next to nothing. I have learned from locals and some historical markers nearby that the bayou was used in the early 1800s as route for barges to transport goods and crops from local farms and small communities to a point here in Lecompte that was known as Smith's Landing. There the goods were loaded onto trains and transported to nearby Alexandria where they could be loaded onto boats on the Red River.
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Smith's Landing - Lecompte, LA
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