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DES ALLEMANDS, La. — A woman is dead following a two-vehicle crash that happened in Des Allemands on Friday, Oct. 25.According to the Louisiana State Police, troopers with Troop C began ...
Billy DiMaio, 25, of Holmdel, died in the Jan. 1, 2025 terrorist attack in New Orleans.
1961: Delta Farms flooded when the levees failed. The cattle were moved up Peanut Street and across the Bayou Lafourche Bridge to land on the west side of the bayou owned by one of the cattlemen. The land was re-drained, although only a few families returned. 1971: Levee broke, flooding all the land.
Ronald Joseph Dominique (born January 9, 1964), known as The Bayou Strangler, is an American serial killer and rapist who murdered at least 23 men and boys in the state of Louisiana between 1997 and 2006.
Thibodaux (/ ˈ t ɪ b ə d oʊ / TIB-ə-doh) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, [3] along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. [4] Thibodaux is a principal city of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan ...
Lafourche Parish: 057: Thibodaux: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Was named Interior Parish until 1812 and Lafourche Interior Parish until 1853. French phrase la fourche or in English, the fork; Bayou Lafourche, or Fork Bayou, is a fork of the Mississippi River: 95,056: 1,472 sq mi (3,812 km 2) LaSalle Parish: 059: Jena: 1910: from west ...
The property that came to be known as Laurel Valley Plantation was sold to Joseph W. Tucker in 1832. Tucker was a Virginian who bought about 5,000 acres of land along Bayou Lafourche. It was at one time the largest producer of sugar in Lafourche Parish, and a mill was built on the property for this purpose.
Cut Off is located in south-central Lafourche Parish at (29.515201, -90.333839), [4] on both sides of Bayou Lafourche It is bordered to the northwest by Larose and to the south by Galliano . Louisiana Highway 1 runs through the center of Cut Off, along the west bank of Bayou Lafourche, while Highway 308 runs along the east bank.