Louisiana - Isle Dernière, Last Island, was a barrier island off the Terrebonne Parish coast that by the 1850s had become one of the premier summer resorts on the Gulf Coast, drawing New Orleans society families and planters to its hotels and cottages for the cooler Gulf breezes of the summer season. 📜 On August 10, 1856, while a dance was in progress at the island's main resort hotel, a major hurricane made landfall over the island with a storm surge that crossed the entire width of the barrier. The surge arrived so quickly that there was almost no time to flee. Over 200 people died. The resort was obliterated. What makes the Isle Dernière disaster specific to Louisiana history is the specific character of the community it destroyed. 🌊 The people who died on Last Island included the pl
Louisiana - There was once a glittering resort island off the Louisiana coast where the wealthy came to dance and escape the summer heat. In a single night in 1856, a hurricane swept the island and hundreds of them into the sea. 🌊 Its name was L'Ile Derniere, the Last Island, and its fate became one of the most haunting tragedies in Louisiana history. Through the 1840s and 1850s, Last Island was the fashionable summer retreat of Louisiana's planter aristocracy, a low, sandy barrier island lined with cottages, a grand hotel, and a ballroom that stayed lit into the small hours. Families arrived by steamer, the sea breeze kept the fever away, and life on the island felt as safe as it was elegant. On August 10, 1856, a powerful hurricane bore down on the coast. That evening, even as the win
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Hurricane Laura was a deadly and destructive Category 4 hurricane that is tied with the 1856 Last Island hurricane and 2021's Hurricane Ida as the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as measured by maximum sustained winds. Losses are estimated at over $19.1 billion, and at least 81 people were killed, with 63 of them coming from Haiti and Louisiana alone, making Laura the 16th-costliest hurricane on record.
66K views · 350 reactions | On a Sunday evening in August 1856, the finest summer resort in Louisiana was dancing. By Monday morning the island it stood on had been cut in half. Isle Derniere, Last Island, | Louisiana Uncovered
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