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Slidell / s l aɪ ˈ d ɛ l / is a city on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.The population was 28,781 at the 2020 census, [2] making it the sixteenth-most populous city in Louisiana. [3]
The Camp Salmen House is located on the shores of Bayou Liberty in St. Tammany Parish, west of Slidell, Louisiana, USA.It is a French Creole cottage, circa 1830. The house was built with a brick core, wood frame post rooms, a cabinet/loggia, and front gallery.
The house is a French Creole Cottage, likely built between 1778 and 1790, by Jean Francois Cousin. Cousin, born in 1745 in New Orleans, managed his father's lumber and brick making business interests on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. He built this home facing Bayou Liberty which has direct access to Lake Pontchartrain.
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Pointe à la Hache: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. A word meaning persimmons created from the Louisiana Creole and the Atakapa language 22,386: 2,429 sq mi (6,291 km 2) Pointe Coupee Parish: 077: New Roads: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. French phrase la pointe coupée or in English, the cut-off point, which refers to a bend in ...
Irish Bayou Castle. Fisherman's Castle, sometimes known as Irish Bayou Castle is a 942 square-foot castle built on Irish Bayou in New Orleans near Slidell, Louisiana.Simon Villemarette built the castle in the style of a 14th-century chateau in 1981 in anticipation of the 1984 World's Fair, and it was strong enough to survive hurricanes Katrina, Isaac, and Ida, although it required repairs ...
Bayou Country Club is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. Its population was 1,396 as of the 2010 census . [ 4 ] Louisiana Highway 1 passes through the community.
On December 28, 1958, the then new St. Genevieve Church at Bayou Liberty (Bayou Bonfouca), a mission of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Slidell, was dedicated by Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel. The occasion recalled the fascinating history of the region, which its famous poet-priest and missioner to the Choctaws, Abbé Adrien Rouquette, described below: