La.418 Stores and Yellow House

Small old store where 419 turns south. Don't turn south. Continue along the levee. You will come to the end, Go up the levee and look. The body of water directly across the levee is called Raccourci Old River. It is the "Old River" referred to back at the Old River Landing.
My long time associate Dr. Raymond Daigle has conferenced with his team of French language experts and come up with the "answer" to yet another factual mystery on this site. "Raccourci" means "short cut" en Frances. The river took a short cut leaving its previous route a lake, now calle Raccourci Old River. "Pointe Coupee" means "cut point", another place where the river was cut to make its route shorter. This occurance is common up and down the Mississippi. As the river meanders, the cresents get wider until the flow pressure exerted by the water becomes so over powering it jumps the cresent cutting the point. This is sometimes facilitated by man.
Side note, New Orleans is known as the "Cresent City". It is also know as the "Big Easy". Don't tell the River.

This is one of the reasons I didn't want you to turn with 419. "Old Hickory" was the nickname given to Geneal Andrew Jackson, co-savior of New Orlenas at the Battle of New Orleans, 1814. I don't know if there is a connection. I don't know if the old store shown above was LaCour's store and has just been renamed.

As I approached the Morganza Levee, there was another historical marker. I don't know if his home was near, I saw none. It was placed in front of a lot of old campers.

Cresting the levee at the end of the pavement, this is the view that awaits you. The gravel snake is Raccourci Hunting Club Road which circles around the lake that was once part of the Mississippi River. This is the Morganza Spillway. We will investigate it and the town for which it was named in the next installment of "Pointe Coupee Rides". From here head back the way you came or take La.419 south to La.1. There you are free to follow your nose. Like I do.

Home, more to come.