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Caption: How the Acadians reclaimed the land.
Additional Description: The technology that the Acadians used to transform wetlands and marshes could not have been simpler: special spades, pitchforks, axes, and hollowed-out tree trunks. Much more important than the tools was the ingenuity of the people to read the natural drainage systems of the marshes and then to build dykes that channelled the flow of those creeks in only one direction, discharging into the sea. One element of the Acadians’ success was to use sod cut from the original wetlands in their earthen dykes.
Submitted: November 2, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p290884
File Size: 0.143 Megabytes

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