Red River Louisiana Map

Amite river atchafalaya river bayou bartholomew bayou macon bayou teche black lake bayou black river boeuf river bogue chitto calcasieu river castor creek dugdemona river little river mermentau river mississippi river ouachita river pearl river red river sabine river tangipahoa river tensas river and whiskey chitto.

Red river louisiana map. Lee honeycutt cc by sa 2 0. The red hat cell block is a former prison housing unit of the louisiana state penitentiary in west feliciana parish louisiana which for a time also contained the state s execution chamber and electric chair. Bayou d arbonne lake caddo lake calcasieu lake catahoula lake claiborne lake cross. The plantation economy was based on cotton cultivation highly dependent on enslaved african labor before the american civil war.

Grant was a new parish created by the reconstruction legislature with the goal of increasing republican party representation. In 1880 the parish had a. Louisiana rivers shown on the map. The remains of the great raftare still visible.

The red river begins in palo duro canyon just south of amarillo texas. It was one of the newer parishes created in 1871 by the state legislature under reconstruction. It forms the boundarybetween texas and oklahoma then makes a bend in the southwestern region of arkansas and enters louisiana. Red hat cell block is situated 3 miles east of red river landing.

Paroisse de la rivière rouge is a parish located in the u s. Red river parish french. Red river navigable river rising in the high plains of eastern new mexico u s and flowing southeast across texas and louisiana to a point northwest of baton rouge where it enters the atchafalaya river which flows south to atchafalaya bay and the gulf. The area along the lower red river of grant parish louisiana and neighboring parishes were a mixture of hill country and cotton plantations with white planters and subsistence farmers and numerous african american slaves working the plantations in the ante bellum years.

It was an area of heated social tensions and insurgency during and after the reconstruction era. Red river also called red river of the south navigable river rising in the high plains of eastern new mexico u s and flowing southeast across texas and louisiana to a point northwest of baton rouge where it enters the atchafalaya river which flows south to atchafalaya bay and the gulf of mexico. Quickfacts provides statistics for all states and counties and for cities and towns with a population of 5 000 or more. State of louisiana as of the 2010 census the population was 9 091 making it the fourth least populous parish in louisiana.