The Agricultural Settlement Succession in the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana.

Abstract

This study of agricultural settlement succession in the prairies of southwest Louisiana-4,000 square miles of almostlevel land formed as a Pleistocene Delta of the Mississippi River-is directed toward an analysis of the modern landscape and the assignment of its elements to the proper cultural segments.A broader study of the cultural geography of Louisiana revealed elements and associations in the landscape of the prairies which contrasted sharply with those in other parts of the state.Data gleaned from family photograph albums, negative files of commercial photographers, and interviews with early settlers were corroborated and augmented by news paper files and other library materials.These details per mitted a theoretical reconstruction of the original landscape produced by each culture segment, thus providing a plane of reference from which to measure cultural change.Hence, the study is organized on the basis of the cultural groups and the landscape is developed through an analysis of changes in form and function of the various cultural elements, Afeout 1765, Acadian farmers settled on long narrow land holdings along the eastern prairie streams.Utilizing the xi

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