Estherwood, Louisiana

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  Mr. and Mrs. David Barzare of Eunice are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Rebecca Celeste Barzare, to Samuel Blayne Rue, son of Mrs.

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• Storm Update: Several roads closed due to flooding
  

  The following roadways are either closed or impassible due to flooding: ACADIA PARISH US 90 at Taylor St.

• Mrs. Andre Thibodeaux
  

  Elizabeth Ann Maturin, of Maurice, and Andre Cole Thibodeaux, of Crowley, exchanged wedding vows July 26, 2008, at a 1 p.m. ceremony at St.

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City Description

Estherwood is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 807 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Estherwood area had two earlier names, Tortue, after the Indian chief, and Coulée Trief or Trive. The Coulée Trief name involves Jean-Baptiste Trief, a mysterious person believed to have been one of Jean Lafitte's pirates, who built a cabin on the coulee, about six miles west of Crowley, Louisiana, about 1816. He was described as a "tall, dark, sinister-looking" man who wore large earrings like pirates once did. There are several stories about how Estherwood got its name. A likely one is that it is the combination of two names: Wood, for a Dr. Wood who was once prominent in the area, and Esther, for the wife of a railroad executive. Another is the wood part may come from the fact that the trains stopped for fuel wood here. Jacob Kollitz and A. D. LeBlanc established stores near the Trief cabin in the early 1890s, and a little settlement began to grow around them. Kollitz also operated the 15 room Estherwood Hotel for a time, but it was closed in 1907. The settlement began to grow just after the turn of the

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• Acadia Parish
• Louisiana

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