Atchafalaya River
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The Atchafalaya River is a 137-mile-long distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River, and is
Atchafalaya River delta on the Gulf of Mexico; view upriver to the northwest.
Atchafalaya Basin Sherburne Complex Wildlife Management Area
Formation of the Atchafalaya River and construction of the Old River Control Structure
Two egrets on the limbs of a cypress in the Atchafalaya flood basin
Great Raft
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The Great Raft was an enormous log jam or series of "rafts" that covered the Red and Atchafalaya rivers in North America from perhaps the 12th century until its destruction in the 1830s. It was unique
Atchafalaya River
…Louisiana near the Gulf of Mexico. The Atchafalaya became a main distributary of the Mississippi in 1839 to 1849 when locals removed a huge log jam (the Great Raft) that was obstructing the Atchafalaya River. The river is formed near Simmesport at the confluence of the Red River with the Mississippi, where the…
The Second Great Raft in 1873, photographed by Robert B. Talfor
U.S. Aid, clearing logjam in the Red River, Louisiana. Plate XV of the photographic album Photographic Views of Red River Raft, 1873
Plate CVII: Steamer Bryarly entering Red River through Sale & Murphy's Canal, 1873
Plate VII, 1873