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Jean Lafitte Marker(detail): Map of Jean Lafitte
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: April 30, 2023
Caption: Jean Lafitte Marker(detail): Map of Jean Lafitte's Smuggling Routes
Additional Description: The headquarters of the "Barbarians" was located on Grand Terre, at the mouth of Barataria Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. According to local tradition, Lafitte used Bayou des Families and Bayou Coquille, along with other waterway, as smuggling routes fro Grand Terre to New Orleans.
Submitted: May 21, 2024, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p790686
File Size: 4.039 Megabytes

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