re: Why is Lake Pontchartrain called a "lake"?

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Lake Poncha train is called a lake because it contains a lot of water.

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Probably the closest answer to the real reason people started calling it a lake

Why is Teche River called Bayou Teche and Bayou Vermillion called Vermillion River? Louisiana is gona' Louisiana.

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Why is False River called a "River" when it's actually a Lake

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Well I guess it technically can be a false river

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When the edibles kick in.

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Idk why but this made me laugh uncontrollably

So you agree the Great Lakes arent lakes

Gordon said they are lakes, so they are lakes!

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Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her

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And not a bay?

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your mother is my side bay

Idk but I remember the
SAVE LAKE PONTCHARTAIN bumper stickers

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Idk why but this made me laugh uncontrollably

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You know the OP was vacuuming his roof thinking about this thread subject.

There’s a long history in many places of asinine naming of bodies of water. Lake Austin? Seriously it’s the fricking Colorado river. I’ve given up on making any sense of it a long time ago.

Looking at your your posted map lets have some history of the War of 1812. The Opening of Rigolets Pass to Lake Borgne is today the L&N Railroad Bridge. The island to the east is known as Pea Island. The British navys ocean going ships were to big for Lake Borgne and anchored between Ship Island and the Chandeleur Islands. The British army offloaded their troops and equipment on barges and were rowed to Pea Island as a staging area in preparation for the battle in Chalmette. American frigates fought the Brits in Lake Borgne but were boarded and captured. The British troops from the West Indies didn't survive the cold any many froze to death. Possibly buried on Pea Island. From the Pea Island staging area they rowed the barges across Lake Borgne to Bayou Bienvenue to move onto Chalmette.

Every time you fish Lake Borgne and the Rigolets think of the battle that was fought there.

At the Rigolets opening to Lake Pontchartrain are bricks under the water known to fisherman as Hospital Wall. This is remains of Fort Coquilles. Fort Pike was built later south of Highway 90.

Enough of todays history lesson.