Map of Blacksmith Road

ID: 1735 ~ Source: Faye Richard Venable, Cindy Richard Arceneaux, Harry Richard, Shelly Blanchard, Leonard Arabie, Myrtle Lejeune McGee, and Adam Doucet ~ Creator: Author ~ Date: May 3, 2024

This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin

Map of some of the households on Blacksmith Road in the 1960s

This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin

Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin – Supplying rural farmers with the means to gin their cotton from the 1930s until the 1970s.

By Kallie R. Johnston

Sometime in the early 1880s, the first cotton gin in Church Point was built by Valentin Breaux and in 1890, his competitor Homer Barrouse opened another. The ginning business was dominated by Joseph Ernest Daigle, who opened multiple gins…