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Pointe Coupee

Narrow stream over portage widened by Iberville and Bienville, 1699. Shortly after 1700 Mississippi River had formed point cut off, a crescent shaped land, Pointe Coupee.

Located in Lakeland, LA, Dist. 61, Hwy 415, Pointe Coupee Parish. 97




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