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Links to Cane River History, Tourism and Preservation Websites
Links to Websites of Places Featured in this Itinerary
Selected Bibliography for Cane River National Heritage Area

Cane River History, Tourism and Preservation Websites

Association for the Preservation of Historic Natchitoches
Dedicated to the preservation of plantations, old homes, artifacts, archives, cultures of the people, French, Spanish and Creole architecture

Cane River Creole National Historical Park
This National Park is located within the Cane River National Heritage Area and includes Oakland and Magnolia Plantations

Cane River National Heritage Area
Visit this website for further information on the region, the historic sites within it, as well as information on grants and other project that the heritage area offers

National Park Service Cane River National Heritage Area
The National Park Service website for the Cane River National Heritage Area.

City of Natchitoches
The official website of the city

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
The HABS/HAER program documents important architectural, engineering and industrial sites throughout the United States and its territories. Their collections, including a number of places highlighted in this itinerary, are archived at the Library of Congress and available online. You can view these by clicking on the link above and entering the search terms such as the name of the town or specific site.

Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation
Learn more about the State office responsible for surveying and documenting historic
sites in Louisiana.

Natchitoches Convention and Visitor's Bureau
Tourist information on lodging, dining, events and attractions in the Natchitoches area

National Park Service Office of Tourism
National Parks have been interwoven with tourism from their earliest days. This website highlights the ways in which the National Park Service promotes and supports sustainable, responsible, informed, and managed visitor use through cooperation and coordination with the tourism industry.

National Trust for Historic Preservation
Learn about the programs of and membership in the oldest national nonprofit preservation organization.

National Scenic Byways Program
This website, maintained by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, includes information on state and nationally designated byway routes throughout America based on their archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and scenic qualities. Visit the America’s Byways Great River Road website for more ideas.

Links to Websites of Places Featured In This Itinerary

Fort Jesup

Los Adaes

Magnolia Plantation

Oakland Plantation

Women's Gymnasium, Northwestern State University

Bibliography

Carter, Cecile Elkins. Caddo Indians. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Chopin, Kate. At Fault. Bernard Koloski, ed. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.

Chopin, Kate. Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie. Bernard Koloski, ed. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

Flores, Dan, ed. Southern Counterpart to Lewis and Clark: The Freemen and Custis Expedition of 1806. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

Fricker, Jonathan, Donna Fricker, and Patricia L. Duncan. Louisiana Architecture: A Handbook on Styles. Lafayette, Louisiana: The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1998.

Gould, Philip, Richard Seale, Robert DeBlieux, and Harlan Mark Guidry. Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

Graves, Daniel. Profiles of Natchitoches History. Natchitoches, Louisiana: The Museum of Historic Natchitoches and its supporters, 1996.

Harvey, Chance. The Life and Selected Letters of Lyle Saxon. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., 2003.

Haynie, Sandra Prud’homme. Legends of Oakland Plantation. Mary Breazeale Cunningham, ed. Shreveport, Louisiana: LaPressCo Printing, 2002.

Joyous Coast Foundation, The. Images of America: Natchitoches. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.

Klier, Betje Black. Pavie in the Borderlands. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2000.

LeBreton, Marietta. Northwestern State University of Louisiana: 1884-1984: A History. Natchitoches, Louisiana: Northwestern State University Press, 1985.

MacDonald, Kevin C., David W. Morgan and Fiona J. L. Handley. “ Cane River: The Archaeology of "Free People of Color" in Colonial Louisiana.” Archaeology International 6:52-55, 2002/03.

Mignon, Francois. Plantation Memo: Plantation Life in Louisiana 1750-1970 and Other Matter. Baton Rouge: Claitor’s Publishing Division, 1972.

Mills, Donna Rachal. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Natchitoches Parish. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Mills Historical Press, 1985.

Mills, Elizabeth. Isle of Canes. North Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown and Gary B. Mills. Tales of Old Natchitoches. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Mills Historical Press, 1994.

Mills, Gary B. The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.

Mills, Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills. Melrose. Natchitoches, Louisiana: The Association of Natchitoches Women for the Preservation of Historic Natchitoches, 1973.

Savas, Theodore P., David A. Woodbury, and Gary D. Joiner, ed. The Red River Campaign: Union and Confederate Leadership and the War in Louisiana. Shreveport, Louisiana: Parabellum Press, 2003.

Saxon, Lyle. Children of Strangers. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., 1989.

Saxon, Lyle, Edward Dreyer, and Robert Tallant, compilers. Gumbo Ya-Ya. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., 1998.

Seale, Richard. “Five Catholic Churches of Natchitoches,” Profiles of Natchitoches History: A Synopsis of Area Events Investigated by the Museum of Historic Natchitoches. Richard Graves, Author. Natchitoches, Louisiana: The Museum of Historic Natchitoches and its Supporters, 1996.

Seale, Richard. “The Town of Natchitoches.” Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

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