Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences – Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and …

Crossroads, Cutoffs, and ConfluencesOrigins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages\nAuthor(s): Richard Campanella\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Louisiana State University Press, United States\nImprint: Louisiana State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780807185100, 978-0807185100\nSynopsis\nRichard Campanella's Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences tells the epic story of human settlement in Louisiana, unearthing the original geographical rationales for the formation of hundreds of cities, towns, and villages where most Louisianians live now. Campanella illuminates why these communities formed where they did, be they at river confluences, forks, crossroads, heads of navigation, ferry landings, shortcuts, portages, resource-extraction sites, or railroad stations, and explores other spatial factors that initially attracted settlers. \n Many of these raisons d'tre have faded into the past. People no longer settle in Alexandria, for example, on account of the Red River rapids; nor do they re?