1955 Map of Lena Lagoon

About this map

Bayou La Loutre cuts a prominent path through the wetlands of St. Bernard Parish in the mid-1950s, flanked by an extensive Spoil Bank system that illustrates the early engineering of Louisiana's coastal waterways. The landscape is a dense network of marshes and brackish water bodies, where larger features like Lena Lagoon and Magnolia Lagoon are connected by intricate channels such as Bayou St. Malo and Bayou Musselini. This survey, compiled from 1952 aerial photography, documents the coastal topography before significant modern subsidence and erosion altered the region. The presence of the Engineers Canal and Bakers Canal suggests a history of maritime access and drainage efforts, while locally named water bodies like Lake Jean Louis Robin and Lake Coquille provide specific geographic markers for genealogists and local historians tracking family connections to these marshlands.