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The local newspaper is The Courier, founded in 1878 as Le Courrier de Houma by the French-born Lafayette Bernard Filhucan Bazet. He first published it in four-page, half-French half-English editions. Sold to The New York Times Company in 1980, it is now part of GateHouse Media. [29] The Houma Times is located in Houma. The newspaper is a weekly ...
John Churchill Chase (1st Edition was published in 1949.) (1997).Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans, 3rd Edition.Touchstone. {{}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ISBN 0-684-84570-9
The parish seat of Houma was named after the Houma people. The native word houma means red, and the tribe's war emblem was the crawfish. Historians say the Houma are related to the Muskogean-speaking Choctaw, and migrated into the area from present-day Mississippi and Alabama. They first settled in the area that developed as Baton Rouge.
Name on the Register [4] Image Date listed [5] Location City or town Description 1: Ardoyne Plantation House: Ardoyne Plantation House: November 1, 1982 : Northwest of Houma on Louisiana Highway 311: Houma vicinity: 2: Argyle: Argyle: July 1, 1994
US 90 enters Louisiana at the Texas line over the Sabine River as part of I-10. Separating at exit 4 and running parallel on the north side of I-10 through Sulphur, before rejoining I-10 east of Westlake, crossing the Calcasieu River, and again splitting from I-10 at exit 31B (running on the south side of I-10) going through Lake Charles as Fruge, West 4th, then East 4th, before leaving town.
Pointe à la Hache: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. A word meaning persimmons created from the Louisiana Creole and the Atakapa language 22,386: 2,429 sq mi (6,291 km 2) Pointe Coupee Parish: 077: New Roads: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. French phrase la pointe coupée or in English, the cut-off point, which refers to a bend in ...
Was SR 675 and Route C-1384 before 1955; originally ran from US 90/US 167 to LA 94, but the section from Simcoe and Surrey Streets to US 90/US 167 became US 167 around 1964; extended to LA 98 (replacing LA 728-1) in 2009 LA 177: 17.13: 27.57 LA 175 north of Pleasant Hill: US 84/LA 1 at Gahagan: 1955: current exit 162 on I-49 concurrent with US 371
The highway continues through Houma on Barrow Street and crosses Bayou Terrebonne, where it makes a jog onto New Orleans Boulevard via a brief concurrency with LA 24, Houma's main thoroughfare. LA 182 follows New Orleans Boulevard north out of town and crosses into Lafourche Parish. [3] [12] [13] [14]