0000004988 00000 n 0000002514 00000 n 0000001254 00000 n Docents on the tour tell colorful stories of Weeks Hall, an aesthete and a probable schizophrenic, and his celebrity guests. Phone: (337) 364-2811. 0000000861 00000 n 0000024152 00000 n 0000001555 00000 n 21 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 24 /H [ 1013 241 ] /L 78612 /E 38276 /N 5 /T 78074 >> endobj xref 21 17 0000000016 00000 n After the Old Spanish Trail opened in 1929, Louisiana got with the program and hard surfaced the entire length of the route. �މ�}l�����[u�۫�����3�|���*56�W:�eB�4i�~��ɒ�7 v�N���)����v� The moss-draped byway provides numerous opportunities to tour museums and historic plantations and explore cypress swamps by boat. ��)���0���. A Spanish trading route in the 1800s, the trail offers a scenic look at West Calcasieu Parish and is packed with Civil War history. However, the impatient driver may want to wait and exit at Raceland, 35 miles southwest of New Orleans, to pickup up the Old Spanish Trail Scenic Byway. 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It crossed eight states and 67 counties along the southern border of the United States. West of Lafayette, the highway moves away from the bayous of Cajun Country and onto Cajun Prairie and Rice Country. Shadows-on-the Teche, right on the Old Spanish Trail in New Iberia, is a 1834 hybrid Georgian Revival and Creole “town” mansion built by sugar planter David Weeks. T��,�X�H�5|×�Q�W^���VD�ط{�i9�s�����a�D���p 3%f�U,�� }8"uG\`����O�V7��9� h���X5�A�b#��\��>�Dt�$�+�2E�}sBQf9�Zz��Q� ��,u2{�\Ű��m�SK�q�v5�@j�hV75e/S��p�� ��l��Dnꚾ�f����!��D�0�Xl�3�D2ټm���gCvs����c��4�7=�� ����=$tm2�[�{��-��߇��Y�����(�>��N���:(�+����*���+�j z���X(إ�@���P�":}-�����|ݫ��0ߺ�j���W�o�O�O16�3��25�c����FYi[-�V�8UO���ш�Jv����r�SFdM�H�͏ ��v�k�E���6d�Bw�����������!p�\aϒ�"(���Γ���R��mO�'�4�[. The bridge is a true engineering marvel of the Old Spanish Trail and is currently being widened for a century’s worth of new use. Both were in Louisiana: Berwick Bay and the mighty Mississippi. Louisiana is the only state that markets its Old Spanish Trail highway — sort of. Farther west in Jennings, another rice city, is a rare artifact of the Old Spanish Trail — the More Mileage Service Station on Main Street. The trail passes through Cane River Creole National Historical Park (a part of the Cane River National Heritage Area) in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Movie star Jayne Mansfield died tragically on the Old Spanish Trail in 1967 on the way to a nightclub appearance when her car slammed into the back of a truck just past the Rigolets Bridge at 2:25 am. Although much of current US 90 feels like an interstate, many sections of the old highway are intact, meandering lazily through scenic Cajun Country. 0000001408 00000 n Completed in 1935, the year of Long’s assassination, the $13 million dollar combined-vehicular-and-railroad bridge covers 4.4 miles, with its center span stretching 790 feet, providing 135 feet of vertical clearance between the river and the bridge. The Old Spanish Trail (the OST) was an auto trail that once spanned the United States with almost 2,750 miles (4,430 km) of roadway from ocean to ocean. The Old Spanish Trail (OST) Highway is a transcontinental highway running from St. Augustine, Florida to San Diego, California. The Old Spanish Trail of today cuts thru these lands of Old Louisiana and because France, and Spain, and England, and now the new races that formed northward, at times governed and stamped their type on this country, it is today one of the most romantic on the continent.
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