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What Louisiana
mill, there a rotting old drawbridge, a trumpet flower adds its note of scarlet to brighten up a gray giant, these clinging vines, in the embrace of the ancient oaks, suggest the marriage of May and December.? Along the banks of the Teche the trees grow to the very water?s edge, and the branches end in bunches of leaves around which is festooned gray Spanish moss. This moss is prevalent on trees through South Louisiana, hanging ?like the gray beard of a Spaniard.?
Morgan City, on the Atchafalaya River, is the center of vast sea food industries. Here the tourist crosses a bridge that is renowned in that so many difficulties were encountered while it was under construction. At that particular point, the Atchafalaya river is exceedingly deep, and it was necessary to build one of the spans on barges, then sink the barges, before the span could be placed into position. One of the piers of this bridge is the deepest foundation in the world.
Continuing on No. 90, the tourist passes through Houma, gateway to important fishing and hunting region in Lower Terrebonne parish. Houma is an important port for commercial shrimp, fish and oyster boats, and between here and Raceland, the next stop, is the most thickly settled rural population in the w'orld. Around Raceland the soil is as rich as the ?valley of the Nile,? and corn as large as any is raised there.
Another route the tourist might take from Houma, and one that is as picturesque as any in the state, is on Louisiana Highway No. 69 northward to Thibodaux, ?the heart of the sugar belt? of South Louisiana, and to Baton Rouge. Continuing on this road, the tourist passes Na-poleonville, Paincourtville, Belle Rose, White Castle, Plaquemine, Port Allen and across the river into Baton Rouge. Along this route are some of the outstanding ante-bellum homes of Louisiana, and near White Castle is the world?s largest pecan tree.
From Raceland the tourist travels through several smaller towrns, including Des Allemands, Boutte, Luling and Westwego, and crosses the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long bridge, thence into New Orleans. The
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The Huey P. Long Bridge Across the Mississippi River at New Orleans is Toll Free, and is Also Used by the Southern Pacific Railroad.