Major Crevasses Continue to Plague the German Coast By the turn of the 19th Century, crude levees were in place along the Mississippi River and provided a...
Category - Disasters
In 1880, former slaves demanding better wages launched the first labor strike in Louisiana. After the strike was over, an interesting article appeared in the...
Press release of the Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, June 1877 regarding the Little Red Church Rectory Fire: “In 1877, an arsonist set fire to the...
From all accounts LaBranche Plantation in St. Rose was one of the grandest on the German Coast. Along with Fashion Plantation, it was destroyed during the...
More than 100 burials took place at St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery alone in 1853. It is assumed that most of these deaths were caused by the yellow fever...
In 1748, two savage Indian attacks of the east bank German Coast colony caused the settlers to abandon their fields, houses, and livestock and flee either to...
(Hover your mouse over bolded terms to see their definition.) Settlers along the river were required to build levees within a certain time period or lose the...