Iberville Trace


Archival Collection


IBERVILLE TRACE COLLECTION

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1. "A Historical Look at Louisiana’s Environment, Discover Louisiana’s Environmental Past, History Reveals Exotic Wildlife and Stunning Natural Landscape," by Richard E. Condrey (xerox from Louisiana Environmentalist, Jan-Feb 1995, pp. 10-17)

2. "On the Eve of Conquest, Coastal Louisiana in 1699," by Richard E. Condrey, (xerox from Coastwise, New Year 1997, pp. 23-28)

3. "History and Policy Developments Related to Freshwater Flow Alterations of the Lower Mississippi River and its Distributaries," by Richard Condrey (5-page paper)

4. "Camino Real historic trail honor OK’d," Advocate, September 11, 2001

Folder-Bayou Manchac

1. Bayou Manchac: A Physiographic Interpretation, by Fred B. Kniffen (xerox from Geographic Review, Vol. 25, 1935, pp. 462-466)

2. Anatamaha: The Fish Place, by Charles E. Pearson, Coastal Environments, Inc. (xerox from Louisiana Archaeology Newsletter, Vol. 15, 1987, pp. 5-7)

3. The Iberville Canal Project: Its Relation to Anglo-French Commercial Rivalry in the Mississippi Valley, 1763-1775, by Douglas Stewart Brown (xerox from Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 4, March 1946, pp. 491-516)

4. Article II, Bayou Manchac (xerox from DeBow’s Review, Vol. 5, Issue II, November 1868)

5. Report from The Secretary of War, 27th Congress, 3d Session, December 1842

6. Letter of The Secretary of War, 40 Congress, 2d Session, March 11, 1867

7. a) Letter to editor, May 3, 2001, from Charles N. Elliott

Newspaper Clippings

b) Bayou residents fear clearing will ruin beauty, Advocate, May 3, 2001

c) Baker critical of corps’ plan to clear bayou, Advocate, May 4, 2001

d) Residents speak against Bayou Manchac plan, Advocate, May 17, 2001

e) Group seeks alternatives to Bayou Manchac project, Advocate, May 23, 2001

f) Residents to help draw Manchac cleanup plan, Advocate, June 6, 2001

g) Manchac levee fails, Advocate, June 12, 2001

h) Stop Bayou Manchac project, Advocate, June 20, 2001

i) Plan to clear, snag Bayou Manchac to proceed, Advocate, July 3, 2001

j) Corps asked for quick study of Bayou Manchac flooding, Advocate, July 31, 2001

k) Bayou Manchac cleaning awaits corps’ paperwork, Advocate, August 7, 2001

l) Board OKs funds for Manchac study

m) Bayou Manchac work shifted to contractor, Saturday, Baton Rouge, May 11, 2002

n) Commission Council votes down Le Pelican plan, The Advocate, May 15, 2002

o) Donaldsonville to buy ship replica Le Pelican, The Advocate, May 16, 2002

International Waters: Lake Pontchartrain Between Spanish Louisiana and British West Florida, by Robert R. Rea (A paper presented to the St. Tammany Historical Society in 1981).

"The Iberville Canal Project: Its Relation to Anglo-French Commercial Rivalry in the Mississippi Valley, 1763-1775," by Douglas Stewart Brown (xeroxed from Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 4, March 1946, pp. 491-515)

IBERVILLE TRACE COLLECTION

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Letter of the Secretary of War communicating information in relation to the cost of opening, for first-class steamboat navigation, Bayou Manchac, Amite River, Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain and Maps necessary to complete the report by General McAlester relative to the survey of Bayou Manchac, made in compliance of a resolution of the Senate of March 11, 1867, 40th Congress, 2d. Session.

Diversion into Maurepas Swamp (PO-29), Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force, January 2002