Thanks to that campaign, the city's population grew four-hundred percent during the decade. Especially in the 1880s, the city saw an increase in population and economic demand largely due to an innovative advertising campaign by J.B.
In the years following the Civil War, Lake Charles regained its status as a lumbering center. Some local families supported the Confederacy, while others supported the cause of the Union. Many citizens became involved in the war.
In fact, fewer than five percent of the population were slaves. Attitudes toward slavery in Lake Charles were mixed, because slavery was secondary to business interests. Civil War, many Americans from the North, along with a large influx of continental Europeans and Jews, had settled the area. Six years after the city was incorporated, dissatisfaction over the name Charleston arose and, on March 16, 1867, Charleston, Louisiana, was renamed and incorporated as the town of Lake Charles.īy the time of the U.S. Later that year, Ryan and Samuel Kirby transferred the parish courthouse and jail by barge to the then-named Charleston. Jacob Ryan convinced the state government to move the parish seat to Lake Charles from its former location at Marion, a settlement about eight miles (13 km) upriver. Between 18, timber sales from longleaf pine and bald cypress remained the city's primary source of revenue. Until the arrival of Goos, Jacob Ryan dominated the lumber industry. He promoted a profitable trade with Texan and Mexican ports by sending his schooner downriver into the Gulf of Mexico. Goos established a lumber mill and schooner dock, in what became known as Goosport. The city's growth was fairly slow until Captain Daniel Goos, a Frisian by birth, came to the city in 1855. On March 7, 1861, Lake Charles was officially incorporated as the town of Charleston, Louisiana. Transliterated through French, that became the name of Calcasieu Parish. The Rio Hondo, which flowed through Lake Charles, was later called Quelqueshue, a Native American term meaning "Crying Eagle". By 1860, the area become known as Charles Town, in Sallier's honor.
The infamous pirate, Jean Lafitte, once delivered stolen slaves and contraband to James Bowie and other enslavers in the area. The area on the east side of the Calcasieu River was defined as the southern part of the "Neutral Ground" until ratification of the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1821. The Salliers built their home on the beach in what is current-day Lake Charles. Charles Sallier, one of the first colonizers, married LeBleu's daughter, Catherine LeBleu. In 1781, Martin LeBleu and his wife, Dela Marion, of Bordeaux, France, were the first recorded Europeans to colonize the area now known as the LeBleu Settlement. The Calcasieu River Bridge as seen from downtown Lake Charles. The first European colonizers arrived in the 1760s. The tolls would be in effect for 50 years until the project is paid off.18th and 19th centuries Early historical events, settlement and incorporation īefore European colonisation, the Lake Charles area was home to the Native American Atakapa Ishak tribe. “They don’t have near enough money to do what needs to be done, but all of that needs to be fixed,” said Landry. State Transportation receives funding for roads in bridges via the state gas tax, which Landry believes is not enough. They’re up there,” said Landry.īecause I-10 goes from one end of the country to the other, Landry believes more federal funds should go towards the project. “Hopefully we’re going to continue to work on it before it’s done and maybe they can get a handle on it, and they won’t be quite as high.
Landry said the estimated tolls range from $2.50 per auto to $12.50 for a large truck with a toll tag, and without a tag $3.75 per car and $18.73 for a semi. The project is estimated to have a two-point-one-billion-dollar price tag and $800 million of the project will be funded through various government sources. Nobody wants to pay tolls and I don’t think people in Lake Charles are any different than people anywhere else in the country,” said Landry. “And the bid came back a lot higher than what they were expecting, and the bad thing is the toll issue. He said there’s no doubt whatsoever that the bridge is needed…. On the heels of the announcement that the I-10 river bridge project will be partially funded by tolls, Calcasieu Parish Police Jury President Chris Landry said he and others are disappointed motorists will have to pay part of the tab.
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