Great Raft
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The Great Raft was an enormous log jam or series of "rafts" that clogged the Red and Atchafalaya rivers in North America from perhaps the 12th century until its removal in the 1830s. It was unique in North America in terms of its scale.
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 Bryerly entering Red River through Sale & Murphy's Canal, 1873
Plate VII, 1873
Caddo Lake
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Caddo Lake is a 25,400-acre (10,300 ha) lake and bayou (wetland) on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in northern Harrison County and southern Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana. The lake is named after the Caddoans or Caddo, Native Americans who lived in the area until their expulsion by the United States in the 19th century. The US forced most of them to move west to Indian Territory.
Viewed from a point near Uncertain
Caddo Lake during winter
The Channel was used by steamboats to reach the port at Jefferson, until water levels fell after the removal of the Great Raft.
Caddo Lake c. 1910