Spanish Lake community

The Spanish Lake Community is a small rural village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.

Los Adaes served as the home to over 400 Spanish citizens, including many families, some soldiers, and a few priests, as well as converted Indians, French traders, escaped slaves, and other frontier denizens.

Surnames such as Flores, Rodrigues, Moore (Mora), Sanchez, Ocon, Niette(Nieto) and Corrales and are all still known to the area today.

A Great Raft of logjams formed in Red River of the South as early as 1100-1200 AD.

On April 11, 1833, Captain Henry M. Shreve of the Army Engineers began work on the logjam.