Mermentau, Louisiana

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• Oct. 26 Atchafalaya Voices: Writing from our readers
  

  OCT. 26 ATCHAFALAYA VOICES: Writing from our readers October 26, 2008 The Shooting It was such a lovely summer day that Mamma thought it an ideal time for a picnic.

• Cravins mounts challenge for U.S. House
  

  State Sen. Don Cravins Jr. hopes to ride the momentum of an old-fashioned, grassroots campaign into halls of the U.S. Congress.

• Flood Warning: Louisiana
  

  LAC001-053-260432- /O.CON.KLCH.FL.W.0059.000000T0000Z-080927T0000Z/ /MRML1.1.FS.080913T1515Z.080916T0645Z.080926T1200Z.NO/ 932 AM CDT THU SEP 25 2008 THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE MERMENTAU RIVER NEAR ...

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• Tornado Warning: Acadia, Vermilion, Jeff Davis
  

  TORNADO WARNING: Acadia, Vermilion, Jeff Davis * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES MERMENTAU... NORTHEASTERN CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS ...

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• Police Beat
  

  St. Landry Parish - The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's office reported booking the following people Wednesday: James Alan Owens, 43, 114 Darjean St., Opelousas, arrested on a bench warrant from Ouachita Parish.

• 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.

• Acadiana Diary: Brother Brinkhaus was church builder here
  

  Joseph Armand Brinkhaus died on the day that I was born, March 7, 1944, in the little town of Grand Coteau.

City Description

Mermentau is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 721 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area. In the last quarter of the 18th century, there was an Attakapas chief Nementou. On April 16, 1784, he sold land on Bayou Plaqumine Brûlée to Antoin Blanc for $100. Nementou is later mentioned as chief of a village on a river with the same name. Eventually, through a clerical error, Nementou became Mementou and this was then corrupted into Mermentau through confusion with the French word mer, which means "sea." The Mermentau area was once reputedly a refuge for smugglers. It was a crossing point for brave travelers on the Old Spanish Trail, but had such a bad reputation that until the Louisiana Purchase no one would go there to see how many people there were. John Landreth was a surveyor who was sent from Washington D.C. in 1818 to look for timber in Acadiana that could be harvested for the use of building Navy ships. He kept a journal and had this to say: "...these places, particularly the Mermentau and Calcasieu are the harbours and Dens of the most abandoned wretches of the human race... smugglers and Pirates who

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• Acadia Parish
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