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re: At one time, Dulac once had 60 shrimp peeling machines on the bayou…
Posted on 2/8/24 at 8:31 am to tgrbaitn08
Posted on 2/8/24 at 8:31 am to tgrbaitn08
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That’s in Patterson, but yeah, part of the Tri City area
Donner had a huge sawmill. A company town ringed with levee’s.
The concrete lumber kiln is still visible from old Hwy 90. They logged the Gibson,Donner and Chacahoula swamp. They built railways throughout the swamp and used skidders also. Read the history then study it on Google Maps.
Read this.
I remember Donner: A historical narrative about an early twentieth-century sawmill community, 1900-1938
Plessala, Jo Anne Gosselin
1 ratings by Goodreads
ISBN 10: 0967427509 / ISBN 13: 9780967427508
This post was edited on 2/8/24 at 8:35 am
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Posted on 2/8/24 at 8:33 am to Bigfishchoupique
I was referring to the Cypress Sawmill Festival which is held in Patterson, La
Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:02 am to BuddyRoeaux
My dad owned an oil change place in Houma in the 70s. One of the techs was a guy from Dulac. He was a Billiot. One day he came to work with his hand wrapped up. My dad asked him what was wrong. He had gotten a Dardar girl pregnant, and the Dardars cut off one of his fingers and used it to bait a crab trap.
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