Natchitoches, Cane River, Plantations and the Creole Community

Posted by Doyle Bailey for Tour Natchitoches with Barbara

Rivers played an important role in the exploration and settlement of the North American continent. In the Louisiana Purchase Territory:

• French and Spanish settlements were strategically located along waterways and overland trade routes.
• Eventually, settlers built plantations along the banks of the Red River and imported enslaved Africans to work the fertile land.
• In was in this setting that Louisiana's Cane River Creole culture was born.
  
• Cane River Lake winds a serpentine route through the Cane River National Heritage Area where 300 years of fascinating history are etched in a rural landscape of plantations, homes and churches.
• The Isle Brevelle community, home and heart of the Natchitoches Cane River Creole Community and for Creoles who live all over the United States, has marvelous sites to see like the Badin-Roque House, Melrose Plantation, the St. Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery and marvelous stories to tell.

THE FRENCH CAME TO NATCHITOCHES IN 1714. NOW IT'S YOUR TURN

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