Bayou Huffpower is a stream in Avoyelles Parish between Cottonport and Bunkie, Louisiana,[1][2] named for an old settler.[3] Bayou Hoffpauir was the name of a United States post office in the area.[4] Pitt's Mill was located on Bayou Huffpower at Evergreen-Holmesville Road and Layou du Lac Road, two miles west of Evergreen, Louisiana.[5]
See also
edit- Epps plantation
- Solomon Northup, author of the memoir, Twelve Years a Slave
- Patsey
- Frithland, a house on the National Register of Historic Places
- James Madison Wells, who had a sugar plantation on the bayou called New Hope, near Alexandria
References
edit- ^ "GNIS Detail - Bayou Huffpower". geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ "Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana Rivers, Lakes & Streams". louisiana.msghn.org. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ Bulletin United States Geological Survey - Number 194. Department of the Interior. 1902. p. 37.
- ^ "Bayou Hoffpauir". geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ Joiner, Gary D.; D, Professor of History Louisiana State University Gary D. Joiner, PH (2007). Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864. Univ. of Tennessee Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-1-57233-571-4.
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