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Bayou La Batre is mentioned in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and in Winston Groom's book of the same name on which the movie is based as the home of Forrest's army buddy Benjamin Buford " Bubba " Blue, and later as the home of Forrest Gump himself during his time as a shrimp boat captain.
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On August 28 – 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina pushed a massive storm surge into Mobile Bay, measuring high at Bayou La Batre ( Alabama ), with higher waves on top, and high at Mobile, at the far northern end of Mobile Bay.
Downtown Mobile was flooded several feet, and the south-end towns of Bayou La Batre and Bon Secour were severely damaged.
Bayou La Batre ( or ) is a town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
Bayou La Batre is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats.
Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobile County mainland and was founded in 1786, when French-born Joseph Bouzage ( Bosarge ) was awarded a Spanish land grant on the West Bank of the bayou ( see history below ).
The modern City of Bayou La Batre was incorporated in 1955.
Bayou La Batre was featured in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and the book upon which it is based.
In April 2005, Disney Studios launched a secretly built pirate ship, the Black Pearl, out of Bayou La Batre for filming sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Bayou La Batre's seafood industry also serves as a centerpiece for the History channel's reality documentary series Big Shrimpin '.
Aerial view of Bayou La Batre from the harbor entrance on the Gulf of Mexico.
Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobile County mainland and was founded in 1786, when Joseph Bouzage ( Bosarge ) moved into the area and was awarded a Spanish land grant on the bayou's west bank.
Bayou La Batre is located at ( 30. 403253 ,-88. 248117 ).
As of the 2010 Census Bayou La Batre had a population of 2, 558.
Bayou La Batre is served by the Mobile County Public School System.
Bryant High School also encompasses students from outside the Bayou La Batre-Coden area from neighboring Grand Bay, Alabama, Irvington, St. Elmo, Alabama, and Dauphin Island.
Both schools ' students were ( in part ) located in what is now Alba Middle School further south in Bayou La Batre.
The library is located on Wintzell Avenue in the Bayou La Batre office of Boat People SOS, a national group that assists Vietnamese-Americans.
Bayou La Batre is a center for shipbuilding.
People from all over the world including the United States, South America, and Africa have boats built in Bayou La Batre frequently.
Another ship, the FV Cornelia Marie from the Deadliest Catch series, was built in Bayou La Batre in 1989.
Cargo ship and boats aground at Bayou La Batre, Alabama, after Hurricane Katrina.
On August 29, 2005, the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, with a local storm surge of nearly and higher waves that engulfed Bayou La Batre and pushed over 23 shrimp boats and the cargo ship M / V Caribbean Clipper onto shore.
In October 2005, seven weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Bayou La Batre was adopted by the City of Santa Monica, California ( see: " Santa Monica Pier ") to assist in clean-up activities.
The Santa Monica City Council approved loaning Bayou La Batre 18 vehicles, including six pickups, two trucks with large cranes, utility vehicles with smaller cranes, a dump truck, street sweepers, a riding lawnmower, and six chainsaws.
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Bayou la Batre was a popular destination for such immigrants because it fostered and continues to foster a similar shrimping industry to that of Vietnam.
* Picture of ship M / V Caribbean Clipper: aground with crane in Bayou La Batre.
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Furthermore, one SWAC game, the Bayou Classic between Southern and Grambling State, is positioned on the schedule after the NCAA tournament has begun.
The county is bounded on the north by Pine Island Bayou, on the northeast by the Neches River, and on the east by Sabine Lake and the mouth of the Sabine River, a natural outlet called Sabine Pass.
The southern boundary with Jefferson County is formed by Pine Island Bayou.
Mississippi County is located in what was formerly known as " Tywappity Bottom ," a vast area bordered by the Scott County Hills on the north, St. James Bayou on the south, the Mississippi River on the east and Little River on the west.
Loggy Bayou is a swamp in Drew County, not to be confused with a bayou in northwestern Louisiana, also called Loggy Bayou.
* Moreau Bayou de Moreau ( or Moro Creek, Moro Bay ) Moreau is a French surname.
The Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery, with a green roof and large bell, is located off U. S. Highway 71 in northwestern Winn Parish south of Saline Bayou.
Winn is separated from Natchitoches Parish along U. S. Highway 71 by Saline Bayou, the first blackwater protected waterway in the American South.
< font size = 2 > Once navigable through Lake Bistineau to Minden, Dorcheat Bayou, shown here in Dixie Inn, Louisiana | Dixie Inn, is a popular fishing area with scenic beauty in many places .</ font size = 2 >
Terrebonne Parish is part of the Houma – Bayou Cane – Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Lafourche Parish is part of the Houma – Bayou Cane – Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The city gets its water supply from Alma Lake, which is perched above the city on the northeast, held back by a tall earthen dam that blocks Little Frog Bayou.
Pine Bluff is home to a number of creeks, streams, bayous ( Bayou Bartholomew is the longest bayou in the world and is the second most diverse stream in the United States ), and larger bodies of water such as Lake Saracen, Lake Langhofer ( Slack Water Harbor ) and the Arkansas River.
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The family name " Thibodaux " is mentioned in Hank Williams's " Jambalaya ( On The Bayou )".
" Filé gumbo " is famously mentioned in the classic country song by Hank Williams Sr., Jambalaya ( On The Bayou ), as it is considered a staple of Cajun cuisine.
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