Bayou Huffpower is a stream in
Avoyelles Parish
Avoyelles (french: Paroisse des Avoyelles) is a parish located in central eastern Louisiana on the
Red River where it effectively becomes the Atchafalaya River and meets the Mississippi River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 42,07 ...
between
Cottonport and
Bunkie, Louisiana
Bunkie is a city in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 4,171 at the 2010 census.
History
Bunkie was founded as a station terminus on the Texas and Pacific Railroad line. It was named for the daughter (whose nickname w ...
, named for an old settler. Bayou Hoffpauir was the name of a United States post office in the area. Pitt's Mill was located on Bayou Huffpower at Evergreen-Holmesville Road and Layou du Lac Road, two miles west of
Evergreen, Louisiana.
See also
* Epps plantation
**
Solomon Northup, author of the memoir, ''
Twelve Years a Slave
''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D. ...
''
**
Patsey
*
Frithland, a house on the National Register of Historic Places
*
James Madison Wells
James Madison Wells (January 7, 1808February 28, 1899) was elected Lieutenant Governor and became the 20th Governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction.
Early life
Born near Alexandria, Louisiana, on January 7, 1808, Wells' father was Samuel ...
, who had a sugar plantation on the bayou called New Hope, near Alexandria
References
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Geography of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Wetlands and bayous of Louisiana