According to Northup, each year, a slave owner in central Louisiana’s Bayou Boeuf offered a Christmas dinner attended by as many as 500 enslaved people from neighboring plantations.

According to Northup, each year a slave owner in central Louisiana’s Bayou Boeuf offered a Christmas dinner attended by as many as 500 enslaved people from neighboring plantations.

Willis founded Calvary Baptist Church on Bayou Chicot in Ville Platte in 1812, within months of his friend from North Carolina and fellow Marion Man, Ezekiel O'Quin, founding Half Moon Bluff ...

Bayou Convent. Bayou Coquil. Bayou Cazelard. These were among the natural waterways that once coursed through the West Bank of greater New Orleans. While they resembled the bayous of the East Bank ...

Bayou Boeuf is also close to his job. He’s an engineer who works for a boat building company.Two floods in three years have been difficult, however. During Ida, the family got 14 inches of water ...

Louisiana leaders want Biden to speed up major disaster declaration for Hurricane Francine Congressman Garret Graves traveled down the bayou to meet with folks and hear their infrastructure needs.

Along Bayou Boeuf, a small tight-knit community that’s had generations of families grow up near the water, people are dealing with homes being filled with water and mud for the second time in ...

THIBODAUX, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) – Over her 65 years of living in the small community of Bayou Boeuf in eastern Lafourche Parish, Diana Tregle Loupe has seen it flood just three times ...

THIBODAUX – Over her 65 years of living in the small community of Bayou Boeuf in eastern Lafourche Parish, Diana Tregle Loupe has seen it flood just three times. First, when she was 9 years old ...

THIBODAUX – Over her 65 years of living in the small community of Bayou Boeuf in eastern Lafourche Parish, Diana Tregle Loupe has seen it flood just three times. First, when she was 9 years old, the ...