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Bayou Pierre is a partially man-made bayou and ancient course of the Red River [1] in Louisiana, United States.It is a tributary of the Red River originating from an ancient bend of the Red River at Coate's Bluff (Wright Island) in Shreveport, LA [2] (now blocked off by a levee to prevent the Red River from flooding into Bayou Pierre) and merging west from the town of Clarence, Louisiana. [3]
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Bayou Pierre is the location of the present-day city of Port Gibson, Mississippi. It was the site many of the earliest Protestant settlers disembarked the Mississippi River. Located about 30 miles north of Natchez, the towns were connected by the first road built in the Mississippi territory, the Natchez Trace, in 1801–02.
Bayou Macon Wildlife Management Area East Carroll: 6,919 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Bayou Pierre Wildlife Management Area DeSoto, Red River: 2,799 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Ben Lilly Conservation Area [5] Morehouse: 247 State of Louisiana; managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ...
The Wallace Lake Dam is a dam that sits on the east side of the lake. Wallace Bayou is formed out of the water flowing from the dam, and is eventually met by Bayou Pierre. The dam exists to prevent flooding of Bayou Pierre. [6] The dam was constructed from July 1941 to December 1946. It is managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Fontainebleau State Park is located in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.The park is 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) in size and was once the site of a sugar cane plantation and brickyard operated by Bernard de Marigny and later by his son Armand Marigny.
It was located on the south bank of Bayou Pierre, 3.0 mi (4.8 km) east of the Mississippi River, and thus was known in colonial and territorial days as the Bayou Pierre settlement. The town's port, Bruinsburg Landing , was located directly on the Mississippi River, just south of the mouth of the Bayou Pierre.