Pecan Island, Louisiana

Pecan Island (French: La Pacanière) is an unincorporated community with a population of about 300 located in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States.

[2] Pecan Island is located in the prairie-marsh region of southern Louisiana, approximately ten miles from the Gulf of Mexico.

Common family names in the area include Veazey, Bourque, Stelly, Guidry, Choate, Winch, Broussard, Morgan, Dyson, White, Lege, Harrington, Lee, and Miller.

The location, a pre-Columbian Coastal Coles Creek culture archaeological site, was occupied between 700 and 1000 CE.

The presence of bones in the same fill dirt means it was interred as a grave good, possibly with a prominent member of the community.