re: Odd history or little known facts about your hometown.

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The Spanish government founded Fort Galvez along Bayou Manchac to guard against invasions by the English who controlled West Florida following the French & Indian War. Fort Galvez was manned with Canary Islanders called Islanos because the Spanish Colonial government was afraid the french colonists might rebel against Spanish rule if ordered to fight. Those Islanos brought rice cultivation, and paella to the area. When mixed with the german coast settlers and the cajuns who came down from nova scotia, they invented Jambalaya. Archaeologists just recently located the site of the original fort in a pasture near Galvez middle school.

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In 1988, a DC-6 crashed on the levee killing the crew and according to legend (of which there are quite a few) the plane was carrying garments and there were bras scattered all in the marsh that people kept picking out the water for years while fishing.

Crazy thing is, I never heard about this until very recently and there's no articles on it, but it definitely happened.

CRASH OF A DOUGLAS DC-6 IN GOLDEN MEADOW: 3 KILLED

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Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Department all three crew members. The aircraft was on I workers pull fuselage ashore from a DC-6 a five-hour flight from El Salvador to New ; cargo plane that crashed Wednesday night in Orleans when it ran low on fuel, hit a levee a drainage canal in Golden Meadow, killing and crashed

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BEST COPY AVAILABLE St. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 12A NATIONWORLD FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1988 No Trace Of Crew Found Around Plane Crash Site -

Deputy spokeswoman Phyllis about 40 miles south of New Orleans, . Breaux said. The area is surrounded by swamps and marshes, accessible only by boat and helicopter. "We didn't see any survivors, and it's a pretty deep canal with about 15 feet of water," Breaux said Wednesday night.

"The plane was submerged, with only its wings still sticking up." The Coast Guard sent a jet, a helicopter and boats to the scene, Lt. Bruce Campbell said at the Coast Guard's 8th District headquarters in New Orleans. "They found a great deal of wreckage just alongside Bayou Lafourche, right alongside a roadway,"

Campbell and other cargo, said Gary Mascara, TACA cargo manager at New Orleans International Airport. The plane's pilot reported that he had just 15 minutes of fuel remaining, that he would be unable to reach New Orleans and that he had to find a closer airfield, said an air traffic controller who asked not to be identified by name.

The nearest field, north of Grand Isle at Fouchon, had a 3,000-foot runway, but the propeller-driven DC-6 needed 5,000 feet and the pilot decided to ditch, the controller said. The plane hit a levee and crashed in a drainage canal about 300 to 400 yards west of Louisiana Highway I,

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Searchers failed Thursday to find any trace of the three crewmen aboard a Salva-doran cargo plane that crashed in Louisiana swamps near the Gulf of Mexico. Thirty people searched along a canal where the chartered, four-engine DC-6 went down Wednesday night, said a Lafourche Parish sheriffs dispatcher.

"There apparently were no survivors, but you never know," Sheriff Duffy Breaux said. The TACA International Airlines charter was on a five-hour flight from San Salvador, El Salvador, to New Orleans with 22,000 "pounds of handicrafts, seafood, plants, electronics TACA is a Central American-airline, based in El Salvador, witB offices in New Orleans.

TACA operates two round-trip cargo flights weekly between San Salvador and New Orleans and rents planes from other companies when there is a lot of cargo to haul, Mascaro said. i On May 24, a TACA jet flight with 41 people aboard experienced engine trouble during a a violent thunder-' storm, and its pilot made an emergency landing on a grassy strip' of land in swampy eastern New Orleans. No one was injured.

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