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The maps in this section were drawn using parish maps developed by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development that can be purchased on 18 1/2" by 24 1/2" sheets. They are obviously reduced in size and are all to a different scale, but most details and proportions are correct.
The reduced maps were scanned into Adobe Photoshop® using an old Agfa Scanner. The maps were drawn in Macromedia Freehand®, mapped and converted in Adobe Photoshop® and programmed in various shareware HTML environments.
These maps are oversized for the internet page and are rendered principally to provide room for links. I hope that in the future detailed maps will be available to download as PDF documents. As faster internet speeds and bandwidths become the norm I hope to enhance the value of the online maps, pehaps providing interactive maps of development, industries and historical battles.
The links in the maps generally end up on this page, but in the future I will point those links to descriptions of waterways, communities and opportunities for economic development, as well as history.
As with all information produced by the Encyclopedia Louisiana staff,
I invite you to seek our sources for even more precise and informative data.
Water has always been important to the history and development of Louisiana.
The Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico are only the first to come to mind,
but every bayou, lake, creek and bay has its own history and resources.
For whatever reason, some of these names are given to several bodies of water
in distant parts of the state. Eventually they will all be listed below with
links to maps and other information.