Waterloo, Louisiana

Founded circa 1820, the community grew as a bustling export center for cotton and sugar cane produced in Pointe Coupee Parish.

Both of these levees broke during the flood of 1884, seriously damaging Waterloo and the smaller communities of Anchor and Cook's Landing immediately downriver.

Most of the families who lived at Waterloo moved to the parish seat of New Roads, just a few miles to the west on False River.

It is also not uncommon for residents of these subdivisions to uncover remnants of the communities while performing any sort of excavation upon their properties.

The racial makeup of the neighborhood is 93.05% White non-Hispanic, 6.25% African American, and 0.6% Latino.