Catahoula Inn Re-opens After Flooding Subsides

ID: 1544 ~ Source: "Rousseau's Catahoula Inn." Teche News, 02 Jun. 1928, pg. 1. Newspapers.com. https://www.newspapers.com/image/473702511/. Accessed April 15, 2024. ~ Date: June 2, 1928

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Catahoula Inn Re-opens After Flooding Subsides

A news ad two months after the Inn's initial opening to announce a re-opening. The paper stated that flood waters had receded enough for patrons to return.

This file appears in: A Lost Paradise: Rousseau's Catahoula Inn

A Lost Paradise: Rousseau's Catahoula Inn – The Tragic Story of a Forgotten Getaway

By Marie Hamilton

Gaston L. Rousseau was born in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, on November 7, 1881. In 1908, Gaston moved to Springfield, Illinois, where he lived for ten years. There, he met Lena Hogan of Illinois. The couple married in New Orleans in 1918. Within two…