1963 Map of St. Gabriel
USGS Topo · Published 1981About this map
Mississippi River banks and the complex wetlands of Bluff Swamp define this river-and-rail corridor south of Baton Rouge. At the start of the 1960s, the landscape is a patchwork of established river settlements like St Gabriel and Sunshine, industrial infrastructure, and large-scale agriculture. The presence of the Louisiana Prison Farm Camp M near Oakley and the extensive St Gabriel Gas and Oil Field reveal the institutional and extractive industries that shaped local land use. Transport is dominated by the Illinois Central and Kansas City Southern railroads, which parallel the river and the inland bayous. Numerous rural churches and burial sites, including New Rising Sun Ch and the St Raphael Cem, provide critical points of interest for those tracing family history in the parishes of Iberville and Ascension.
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