Today you would have to dig through more than ten feet of silt to find any remnant of the Bayou Chene community that once flourished in the middle of the Atchafalaya Basin. That makes it only a little harder to find than when it was a reasonably prosperous settlement.
It was always an isolated place. It was surrounded by swamp and the only way in or out was by boat. But that didn’t bother its h...