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Posted on 9/6/22 at 1:19 pm to Joe_Dirte
When I was a kid, we had a camp on Toledo Bend. I thought the Zwolle/Sabine parish area people were Redbones. Some kind of Indian/Messican mix. Didn't want to get into a knife fight with them.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 2:38 pm to LongueCarabine
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We always called the people from Oakdale (Allen Parish) Redbones.
Worked with a woman from Oakdale, who was a self professed “Redbone”. She had a very dark complexion with the blackest hair I’ve ever seen and angular facial features. I grew up hearing of the people called “Redbones” who should be feared. They were said to be a mixture of Spanish, Native American, Black and white and were descendants of pirates and criminals who resided in the region along the Sabine. At that time, the LA/TX boundary had not been established making it a no man’s land.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 2:48 pm to LSUgusto
Holly Beach. I have great childhood memories of family vacations there. We would rent a camp on the beach for a week, rent huge inter tubes for the day. We would pull the inter tube out as far as we could and ride the waves back to shore. No way I’d do that now!
Posted on 9/6/22 at 3:18 pm to Napoleon
Just checking in to say thanks for the thread. It is so entertaining to watch a moron (SavageOrangeJug) be so thoroughly defeated yet continue blathering on like he knows something.
Whenever I get criticized about some subjective thing, I think of morons like this one, and a peaceful calm washes over me.
Most people’s opinions are worthless and uninformed, but quick interactions don’t allow you to see it. When you have time to watch someone expose their ignorance it really puts things in perspective.
Thanks to all, even Orange.
Whenever I get criticized about some subjective thing, I think of morons like this one, and a peaceful calm washes over me.
Most people’s opinions are worthless and uninformed, but quick interactions don’t allow you to see it. When you have time to watch someone expose their ignorance it really puts things in perspective.
Thanks to all, even Orange.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 8:07 pm to LongueCarabine
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I used to work with a fellow with that last name, he was from Pine Prairie. But I believe his extended family was from the Oakdale area.
That's some tough old baws right there! Also the Harts.
Posted on 9/7/22 at 12:32 am to BOSCEAUX
People for Starks were called Redbones by people from Vinton. There was a running feud between two families in Starks which went on for generations. Every few years one member a family was shot dead in the woods, a few years later it was the other family's turn.
Merryville was more Gernan woodcutters from that thriving timber industry 100+ years ago with a large sawmill in Singer.
Merryville was more Gernan woodcutters from that thriving timber industry 100+ years ago with a large sawmill in Singer.
Posted on 9/7/22 at 12:34 am to LSUgusto
Way back in the day even a decade after Audrey, many, if not most, of those camps were owned by people from Laffy.
Posted on 9/7/22 at 6:00 am to CitizenK
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There was a running feud between two families in Starks which went on for generations. Every few years one member a family was shot dead in the woods, a few years later it was the other family's turn.
I believe it was the Hollys and the Doyles. Last one that I know of was when I was a kid where one side shot two from the other side while they were in a boat fishing at Alligator park.
Yep. Vinton people mostly claim to be Cajun descendants and Starks people are Redbones. The towns are 10 miles apart
Posted on 9/7/22 at 10:07 am to BOSCEAUX
claim and reality are two different things.
Vinton was originally called Blair with the bigger town being Ged. Blair changed its name to Vinton after a town in Iowa (as was the town of Iowa changed from something else) when farmland was sold to immigrants from Iowa who owned most of the rice fields in the area. Some of those who lived in Ged migrated to Vinton after the oil boom died down. FWIW, the Ged oilfield in its prime produced more oil per acre than any in the history of oil
SW LA had very few Cajuns pre WWII east of Jennings.
Vinton was originally called Blair with the bigger town being Ged. Blair changed its name to Vinton after a town in Iowa (as was the town of Iowa changed from something else) when farmland was sold to immigrants from Iowa who owned most of the rice fields in the area. Some of those who lived in Ged migrated to Vinton after the oil boom died down. FWIW, the Ged oilfield in its prime produced more oil per acre than any in the history of oil
SW LA had very few Cajuns pre WWII east of Jennings.
Posted on 9/7/22 at 10:30 am to Joe_Dirte
You were right in the middle of it there. Along with Dulac that is the epicenter. Hair so black it shine blue.
Nice people, when you get to know them.
Nice people, when you get to know them.
Posted on 9/7/22 at 11:17 am to BOSCEAUX
LPB had a program on the Neutral Strip a couple years ago. NO MAN’S LAND | Louisiana Public Broadcasting
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