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On Lafitte Parkway (State Highway 3134) at Barataria Boulevard (State Highway 45), on the right when traveling south on Lafitte Parkway.
Part of the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve with 23,000 acres of wetlands. Park was created in 1978 due to persistence of educator and environmentalist Frank John Ehret, Jr. — — Map (db m109427) HM
On Barataria Boulevard, 0.1 miles north of Merlin Lane, on the right when traveling north.
To guard New Orleans, Spain in 1779 settled 56 families from the Canary Islands on lands starting at Crown Point. Flooding by the Mississippi River forced most of the settlers to relocate in 1782. Efforts to resettle failed and finally ceased in . . . — — Map (db m81095) HM
Near Barataria Boulevard (State Highway 45) 1 mile north of Lafitte Parkway (State Highway 3144), on the left when traveling north.
This is the Barataria Basin, built of soil washed to this area by the Mississippi River. This soil is still compacting and sinking, a process called subsidence. Most of the Barataria Preserve is less than two feet above sea level, and its . . . — — Map (db m109928) HM