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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. [28] 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
It then crosses a vertical lift bridge over Bayou La Carpe and enters the city of Houma where it travels along South Van Avenue. In Houma, LA 661 intersects LA 57 (Grand Caillou Road) and LA 3040 (Tunnel Boulevard). Crossing LA 3040, the highway curves to the north as Howard Avenue and proceeds to LA 24 (Main Street) at Bayou Terrebonne.
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.
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]
Curving to the northwest, LA 56 skirts the Houma city limits and becomes known as East Main Street. The route proceeds a short distance further to a T-intersection with LA 24 next to the Houma–Terrebonne Airport in an area known as Presque Isle. LA 56 is an undivided two-lane highway for its entire length. [52] [61] [62] [63]
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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