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Breaux Bridge: 14: Pellerin-Chauffe House: Pellerin-Chauffe House: April 5, 1984 : South of Breaux Bridge on Louisiana Highway 347: Breaux Bridge vicinity: 15: Henri Penne House: Henri Penne House: June 9, 1980 : West of Breaux Bridge
The city of Breaux Bridge is zoned to Breaux Bridge Primary School (Grades PK-2), Breaux Bridge Elementary (Grades 3-5), Breaux Bridge Junior High School (Grades 6-8), and Breaux Bridge High School (Grades 9-12). Private schools include St. Bernard Elementary (Grades PreK-8) and Louisiana Christian School (Grades PreK-12).
On the Mississippi River, most shipping was down river on log rafts or wooden boats that were dismantled and sold as lumber in the vicinity of New Orleans. Steam-powered river navigation began in 1811–12, between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans. Inland steam navigation rapidly expanded in the following decades.
It lies on Bayou Teche, 13 miles (21 km) south of Breaux Bridge, [4] 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Lafayette, [5] and 9 miles (14 km) north of New Iberia. [6] The population was 6,114 at the 2010 U.S. census, and 5,379 at the 2020 United States census. [7] It is part of the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area.
The 2000 U.S. census counted 44,915 people in the parish who are at least five years old of whom 31,229 (69.5%) speak only English at home, 27.44% reported speaking French (Colonial French also known as Plantation Society French) or Cajun French at home, while 1.52% speak Louisiana Creole French. [15] St.
Although the bridge is named after former Louisiana governors Huey P. Long and Oscar K. Allen, it is known locally in the Baton Rouge Area as "the old bridge". [3] It was the only bridge across the Mississippi in Baton Rouge from its opening until April 1968, when the Horace Wilkinson Bridge ("the new bridge") carrying Interstate 10 opened.
LA-29: Bayou Teche Bridge Extant Rolling lift (Scherzer) bascule: 1940 2016 LA 86 (Bridge Street) Bayou Teche: New Iberia: Iberia: LA-30: Calcasieu River West Fork Bridge Extant Vertical-lift bridge: 1968 2016 LA 378: Calcasieu River west fork Moss Bluff: Calcasieu
Bayou Teche (Louisiana French: Bayou Têche) is a 125-mile-long (201 km) [1] waterway in south central Louisiana in the United States.Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River's main course when it developed a delta about 2,800 to 4,500 years ago.