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1963 Map of Gray

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Gray
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1965
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1965

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The low-lying wetlands of Bayou Country are defined here by a transition from industrial activity to deep southern plantation heritage. The corridor of Bayou Terrebonne and Bayou Blue serves as the primary artery for settlement, where communities like Gray and Schriever are clustered along the high ground. Large agricultural estates including Magnolia Plantation, Minerva Plantation, and Rebecca Plantation dominate the western landscape, intersected by the Southern Pacific railroad lines.

Detailed surveyors' notes reveal the community infrastructure of the mid-1960s, noting the Price Sch and Schriever Sch alongside numerous houses of worship like St Bridget Ch and St Marks Ch. To the north, the terrain gives way to the formidable Devil Swamp, while to the east, the Lafourche Crossing Oil and Gas Field indicates the region's mid-century energy production. Several cemeteries, such as the Garden of Memories Cem and Halfway Cem, provide critical points of interest for genealogists tracing local families in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.