Southwest Louisiana, Biographical and Historical (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Southwest Louisiana, Biographical and Historical Chapter VIII. - Parish of St. Mary - Topography, etc. - Belle Isle - Geological - Lands Over owed and not Over owed - Sketch of Daniel Dennett - Resources of the Parish - Crop Statistics - In the Good Old Times, etc.-number of Slaves - Rice - Fruit Growing - Straw berries - Tobacco - Climate and Health - Cote Blanche Island - Early Settlement - Moralizing on the Pioneers - characteristics - An Incident - Another - Organization of the Parish Police Jurors Nigger Rule - The Early Courts and Bar - Military - The Town of Frank lift - Manufacturing Industries - A pott of Entry - Morgan City. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."