Established between Unknown Pass and Miller's Ditch, it was settled for railroad workers, trappers, hunters and fishermen.

It was rebuilt with a number of hunting and fishing clubs being established along with the railroad workers and the Rigolets Train Station.

To the north, between Lake St. Catherine and Lake Pontchartrain is a nine-mile (14 km) long populated island known as the New Orleans East Land Bridge which had been well-populated since the 1920s, with several marinas, taverns, and restaurants, boat yards and docking facilities.

It is assumed that he drowned inside the church and was washed out to sea by the retreating storm surge, which gutted the building.

The second to lose his life was Wayne Aaslestad, who chose to stay with his home and was later found inside his car in Lake Pontchartrain.