Bayou Huffpower Explained

Bayou Huffpower is a stream in Avoyelles Parish between Cottonport and Bunkie, Louisiana,^{[1] [2]} named for an old settler.^[3] Bayou Hoffpauir was the name of a United States post office in the area.^[4] Pitt's Mill was located on Bayou Huffpower at Evergreen-Holmesville Road and Layou du Lac Road, two miles west of Evergreen, Louisiana.^[5]

See also

• Epps plantation
  • Solomon Northup, author of the memoir, Twelve Years a Slave
  • Patsey
• Frithland, a house on the National Register of Historic Places
• James Madison Wells, who had a sugar plantation on the bayou called New Hope, near Alexandria

Notes and References

1. Web site: GNIS Detail - Bayou Huffpower . 2021-06-24 . geonames.usgs.gov.
2. Web site: Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana Rivers, Lakes & Streams . 2021-06-24 . louisiana.msghn.org.
3. Book: Bulletin United States Geological Survey - Number 194 . Department of the Interior . 1902 . 37.
4. Web site: Bayou Hoffpauir . 2021-06-24 . geonames.usgs.gov.
5. Book: Joiner . Gary D. . Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864 . D . Professor of History Louisiana State University Gary D. Joiner, PH . 2007 . Univ. of Tennessee Press . 978-1-57233-571-4 . en . 168.