Everything about The Mermentau River totally explained
The
Mermentau River is located in Southern
Louisiana and flows between
Calcasieu Lake and
Vermillion Bay on the
Chenier Coastal Plain of
Texas and
Louisiana.
The Mermentau River supplies freshwater for the
Mermentau Basin. The Chenier Basin is located between the Mermentau Basin and the
Gulf of Mexico, and is unique in that it no longer contains any true estuarine Gulf habitat although historically the basin served as a productive estuarine nursery ground. Freshwater inflow is from the Catfish Point control structure. Presently, several large freshwater lakes (
Grand Lake,
White Lake) and confined wetlands dominate the region. These habitats are confined within the mainland and isolated from the influence of saltwater by a series of water control structures or 'locks'.
A significant percentage of the basin lands are publicly owned as Federal refuges and State wildlife management areas. Pirate
Jean Laffite is rumored to have sailed into the area during the
1800s, possibly stashing gold treasure.
Landmarks
The Mermentau River is also known to contain the infamous "Negro Island" (also known as "Skull Island") where in
March 1867, John W. Sweeney, Jr found
"countless skulls, skeletons, and leg bones, each of the latter still shackled by a rusting leg iron to the skeleton lying beside it." Since
the Civil War recently ended, slave captains knew that if a slave ship were caught with
Africans aboard, the slaver captain would be tried for violating the
1820 U.S. Law on Slave Trade, the penalty of which was a charge of piracy and death by hanging. Without a doubt the shackled and starving Africans on Skull Island died quickly. Researches believe this human cargo could possibly be the missing slaves from the topsail hermaphrodite schooner
"The Huntress". This schooner was the last slave ship which left the Congo region of Africa in
March 1865 with a capacity of 200 slaves.
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