Colyell Bay Landing, Livingston Parish with connections to Orleans Parish, Louisiana File prepared by D.N. Pardue ------------------------------------------------------------------ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ------------------------------------------------------------------ >From the book entitled "The Free State - A History and Place-Names Study of Livingston Parish" by the members of the Livingston Parish American Revolution Bicentennial Committee in cooperation with the Livingston Parish Police Jury and the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1976. Reprinted by permission. Dedicated to the memory of Reuben Cooper and Raymond Riggs. COLYELL BAY LANDING This place was known as a landing and docking place on Colyell Bay for the steamer boats "Alice", the "Jessie" and others. These boats made regular runs from New Orleans bringing all types of mer- chandise including farm supplies, groceries, household goods, special orders such as furniture and factory-made cypress cisterns to the people of the area. This landing was located on the bay in Section 37, T8S-R4E, a few hundred feet east of the present Colyell Bay Bridge on La. Hwy. 16 in the village of French Settlement. Directly in front of this landing across the rod stood the old home of an early settler by the name of "Uncle" John Schexnaider. -- Lucille Cooper * * *