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Reuben Ray and family acquired about 640 acres along the east bank of Bayou Boeuf in 1812 three miles from the closest settlement, which was Cheneyville. [1] James Bowie was a close neighbor between 1814 and 1816. Then a young man, he survived by cutting timber and barging it down the bayou to be sold in New Orleans.
In December, Osband took 125 officers and men from the 1st Mississippi Cavalry (AD) and 76 from the 4th Illinois Cavalry across to the west bank of the Mississippi River. They rode 15 mi (24 km) inland and then followed the Boeuf River (Bayou Boeuf) north a short distance
Rapides County – The settlements of Rapides, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Bayou Boeuf, Bayou Robert, and other settlements in the region. In 1807, divided into Avoyelles and Rapides parishes. On December 7, 1810, William C. C. Claiborne , governor of the Orleans Territory, annexed the short-lived Republic of West Florida to the United States and ...
Edwin Epps House is a Creole cottage built in 1852 (173 years ago) () in part by Solomon Northup [1] on Bayou Boeuf near Holmesville in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. [2] It was built for Edwin Epps, a slaveholder. [1] The house was a "double-sided, wood frame house with one chimney, and a tin roof" of mid-sized farmers. [3]
Ezra Bennett came to Eldred's Bend on Bayou Boeuf from New York in 1830.He came to teach school, either as a private tutor in a village or as a resident at some plantation. The rich land of the'area had been settled comparatively recently and Bayou "Boeuf provided access to the outspLde world-for the planter's produce.
The Bayou Boeuf is the means of transportation for the planter, and the Crocodile for the lumber men." [ 7 ] Washington, sometimes called Washington Landing, is located about 6 mi (9.7 km) north of the parish seat of Opelousas, and had developed into a thriving trading center and inland port in the years before the civil war. [ 16 ]
Boeuf River; Bayou D'Arbonne (LA) Cornie Bayou; ... Illinois Bayou: 379 10.7: near Scottsville: ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Arkansas (1974)
Red River Bank in Lecompte Bayou Boeuf in Lecompte. Lecompte (/ l ə ˈ k aʊ n t / lə-KOWNT) is a town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. Lecompte is situated along the banks of Bayou Boeuf in central Louisiana. US Highway 71, Louisiana’s major north-south route which connects Baton Rouge and Shreveport, runs through Lecompte.