Louisiana Dread is a FREE online streaming service that produces quality Louisiana cultural and historical content. Several online series include:
Quick History - A historical briefing about events in Louisiana history and locally told horror stories. La DRINKS - A tutorial in cocktail making with local bartenders mixing local drinks. La ESTATES - A guide to historic homes located all around the state. Gumbo Reviews - A quick review of gumbo in restaurants across Louisiana, so you know where to get the best.
A channel and group of ALL LOCAL creators dedicated to preserving and sharing Louisiana history, horror, folklore, and culture.
I absolutely love all of your videos. I was born at a Thibodaux hospital in August of 1949 but we lived in Galliano. I married in late 1969 and lived in a rent house in Golden Meadow for 4 1/2 years. We built our house in 1973, in Galliano. We are still here 51 years later! Raised 3 kids here but sadly not one remained here 😢. Thibodaux, North Shore, California. Adult grandchildren in Terrebonne Parish. But us? Right here in south Lafourche
@louisianadread have you looked into the history of Paradis, LA. Was supposed to be huge with college and large population of homes. Flood spoiled the plans.
I prepared for the future hurricanes that will hit Louisiana by moving to the mountains of East Tennessee. I did this almost 40 years ago, and have never looked back.
I grew up here. My dad was a child when that double hanging happened. He said it was like a festival. Or maybe a tailgate party today. Thousands gathered outside the jail. People were selling food and souvenirs. People were picnicking. Everyone was having fun. The inmates were able to be seen at the top cupola before they were dropped to their deaths at the end of those ropes. It sounds like a totally morbid and disturbing day.
Pretty great historical review but Freedmen *did exist, and own slaves, elsewhere as well, although I'll agree inter-racial mixture was probably more common in Louisiana than anywhere else.
Demand for specialty stationary dried up. That's what the papermill made. Acoustic panels used to be made out of the bagasse, and glue factory next door. The glue factory is now a specialty chemical company, mostly for toll manufacturing and drying of chemicals for major companies.
I somehow missed this town on my drive with other Coast Guard disaster responders down to Venice, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. But I did get to see the horse in the tree. Ya had to have been there to know what that was.
I drove the Causeway twice a day for eight years commuting from Mandeville to New Orleans. I would often see people buying a “Causeway” can of beer (16 oz.) to hold them over until they got home . I preferred an extra large coffee 😀.
I was born a raise I galliano Alex Austin was my mother uncle Salvador galliano live next door to my parents Alex Austin use to own a grocery store before he turn it to the galliano post office the building is still their no longer the post office his house was right in the back of the post office which it still their to
Never heard it referred to as the heart of DTB and I’ve been living in Houma for about 8 years now. Learn something new every day! But I imagine it’s the heart because without it you’d die if you live down in GI or GM
From a newspaper article in 2011: "Following a dive in April [2011], Gelé and a team of private, underwater archeologists he hired brought up artifacts from the site, including four roofing tiles made in Marseilles, France, sometime between the 1800s and the turn of the century. Another artifact he found was a curved clay pottery piece or possibly a sewer tile, Gelé said." Hardly evidence of an "ancient civilization." And why did the granite have to come from down the Mississippi? Why couldn't it have been brought from Europe and across the Atlantic, as, for example ship's ballast?
@@LouisianaDread What is more likely -- primitive peoples' rafting lots of heavy stones down the Mississippi to dump offshore or 1700s-1800s ships just dumping ballast to get over shallow reefs? A simple solution would be to scientifically test the stones' chemical and morphological characteristics and compare them to similar stones with known geologic origin. It's what they did at Stonehenge.
