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Keywords: PlaqueminesBatureDweller1972.jpg HOUSE ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER BATTURE 05/1972 Plaquemines Parish Louisiana Note such houses built by what were known as Batture dwellers were common during the Great Depression; the land between the crest of the River levee and the water was Federally controled and out of local juristiction to evict people giving them a quasi-legal if precarious residence When the river is high piers keep the house out of water which covers this area; unusually high water on the river can flood or destroy such batture houses By the last third of the 20th century only a few batture houses remained Photograph by John Messina for Series DOCUMERICA The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern compiled 1972 - 1977 NARA-image 544285 Converted from gif to jpg and border cropped before upload 1972-05 John Messina No restrictions PD-USGov 1972 in Louisiana DOCUMERICA Houses in Plaquemines Parish Plaquemines Parish Louisiana Stilt houses in Louisiana John Messina - DOCUMERICA
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