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Most impressive was the site of the house of Cadet LaFontaine. Nothing remains of it, as it was tom down years ago and some of the timber was used to build a house in Bay St. Louis. To get there, we had to crawl through barbed wire as we neared the marshland prairie of the bayou, an ancient oak being our destination. It stands just off the marsh, where once a footbridge led to the bayou. Just to the west, the land rises, and it is easy to assume that Cadet built on the elevated area, overlooking he bayou to which he gave his name.


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