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Posted on 6/8/24 at 3:07 am
Posted by Saunson69
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 3:07 am
It used to be a resort in 1850s and a hurricane wiped it out? How did people get there. I just fished there last weekend. Another fisherman told me there was a road that lead all the way down here in the 1800s. I don't think cars existed then, but even if they did, it's wayyy out there past all continuous land that could service a road.
But really, just wanting to know what the island was like?
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Posted by Tarps99 
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 3:32 am to Saunson69
There are a books about Last Island and the hurricane that took it out.
Last Days of Last Island: The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana's First Great Storm
It is a book by Bill Dixon. And one of many about the island.
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Posted by Fat and Happy 
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 3:38 am to Saunson69
It was the 30A of the 1800s
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 3:41 am to Saunson69
Metal detecting?
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Posted by KLSU
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 5:25 am to Saunson69
They got there by horse. There was land all the way to last island and enough of it for people to be raising cattle on it.
Father in law was in the Corp of Engineers and has a camp in Dulac he talked about it often when we would fish there.
If you have never been to “isle
Derniere” it’s truly amazing to think there used to be land all the way to the island. Literally a 30 min boat ride from Cocodrie through lake Pelto bay to get to the island.
Puts land loss really in perspective.
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Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 5:31 am to Saunson69
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I don't think cars existed then
They had cars back then.
Duh.
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Posted by iron banks
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 5:33 am to KLSU
Just another sad tale in the loss of coastal Louisiana. It makes me sad to go down to Saint Bernard, Plaquemines and Terrebonne and see the staggering loss of land. It truly is unfathomable what has happened since I was a teenager in the 1980s. Look up Manilla Village down in Barataria Bay. I believe that was in lower Jefferson Parish North of Grand Isle.
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Posted by Sidicous
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 5:33 am to Saunson69
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Another fisherman told me there was a road that lead all the way down here in the 1800s. I don't think cars existed then,
The Romans built roads all across Southern Europe and they didn’t have cars either. What people had was wagons and carriages and carts that required roads.
Point is, roads existed millennia before the ICE made personal transportation convenient and available to the masses.
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Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 5:36 am to Saunson69
The OT is getting old but I didn't realize it was that old.
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Posted by Nonc Chu Rouge
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 5:38 am to Saunson69
I think there was a train that ran to it from New Orleans. The tracks got destroyed in the storm as well.
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Posted by SloaneRanger
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:01 am to iron banks
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Just another sad tale in the loss of coastal Louisiana.
South Louisiana is deltaic plain. When you levee up all the rivers and prevent them from flooding, guess what happens.
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:06 am to Tarps99
Fantastic book.
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Posted by CHEDBALLZ
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:23 am to Saunson69
My Grandpaw would be 96 if he was alive. He was born and raised in Cocodrie. He told us his grandparents took a horse and buggy to Last Island.
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Posted by elprez00 
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:33 am to Tarps99
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Tarps99
Good book. This was an OT topic awhile back and I ordered this book and read it.
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Posted by SG_Geaux
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:36 am to Saunson69
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How did people get there
Obviously they had to swim 
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:40 am to Saunson69
there is a family in Houma area that was (maybe still is) suing the state of Louisiana for not recognizing their claim to a Spanish land grant of the island
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Posted by CHEDBALLZ
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:44 am to Hooligan's Ghost
That would be the Voisins. They claim the island was owned by Jean Voisin and is now owned by his descendants.
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:48 am to SG_Geaux
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Last Island was also known for an almost continuous breeze, which would have been welcomed by those escaping the suffocating heat of New Orleans. Accommodations included the John Muggah's Ocean House Hotel, and for entertainment there were several gambling establishments and the Captain Dave Muggah's Billiard House.[4] Several hundred yards to the west of the hotel was the settlement known as Last Island Village which consisted of approximately 100 beach homes, some "fine" houses and other temporary summer houses. Regular steamer service to the island was provided by the Star from Bayou Boeuf. The New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad provided a connection to Bayou Boeuf from Algiers, La., a short ride on the Algiers Train Ferry across the Mississippi River from the French Quarter landing at St. Ann Street. Regular railroad fare was $3.50 with half-fare for children and servants.[5] New Orleanians could take the Algiers passenger ferry.
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Regular railroad fare was $3.50
Some things never change 
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Posted by idlewatcher
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:54 am to Saunson69
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Of the approximately 400 vacationers on the island at the time the hurricane hit it, 198 were known or presumed dead and 203 were known survivors.[5] Several of the victims were enslaved people, some of whom were credited with rescuing others, including several children. Every structure on the island including the hotel, a large, two-story wooden structure of considerable strength, was destroyed,[6] and the island was left void of crops and other vegetation.
Interesting ^
Couldn’t find anything about a road directly to the island though. Said you could take a ferry though back then to the island itself.
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:55 am to SloaneRanger
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When you levee up all the rivers and prevent them from flooding, guess what happens.
You get flood control and don’t have to dredge the rivers much to keep them at a sufficient water depth to allow deep draft shipping.
Hence our conundrum.
The piss-ant sized water diversion projects are like peeing on a forest fire.
In the common parlance:
The deltaic marshes of south Louisiana are f*ckked.
Shipping/Flood Control/Private Interests are stakked.
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