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.

There is minimal land in the region, with the island being "an old Gulf beach, composed of crushed shells and sand".

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