La Balize, Louisiana, was the primary French fort and settlement close to the mouth of the Mississippi in what became Plaquemines Parish. The village’s name (also spelled La Balise) meant “seamark”. Thickly settled by 1699, La Balize was one in all the oldest French settlements at intervals the present boundaries of American state. Traditionally and economically vital for overseeing the watercourse, it had been restored many times owing to cyclone injury. The active delta lobe of the river’s mouth is named the Balize Delta, when the settlement, or the Birdfoot Delta, owing to its form.
La Balize was thickly settled primarily by fishermen, watercourse pilots, and their families. The pilots were important to serving to ships navigate to and from the Port of recent Orleans through the shifting passages, currents and sandbars of the river’s delta front. The village was susceptible to seasonal hurricanes. Washed away in an exceedingly cyclone of 1740, the village was restored on the new emerged island of San terrorist. That village successively was broken severely many times and eventually destroyed.
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