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Tiny NATCHITOCHES (pronounced "Nakitish"),
in the sleepy cottonfields of the Cane River, is the oldest European
settlement in Louisiana, having begun life as a French trading
post in 1714. A Catholic oasis in a Protestant desert, it was
swiftly fortified when its Spanish and Native American customers
started to combine aggression with commerce.
With its lovingly restored Creole architecture,
Natchitoches's exquisite Front Street , on the
river, bears a passing resemblance to New Orleans' French Quarter,
with its lacy iron balconies, spiral staircases and cobbled courtyards
complemented by friendly, old-style stores. The 1717 Church
of the Immaculate Conception , at Second and Church streets,
has many of its original French features, including glass chandeliers
and a hand-carved font. Fleur de lis on the nearby Walk
of Honor commemorate celebrities with local connections,
such as John Wayne, Clementine Hunter, and the cast of the movie
Steel Magnolias , which was set and filmed here in 1988.
Fort St Jean Baptiste , at Moreau and Mill streets (daily
9am-5pm; $2), is a five-acre reconstruction of the town's 1716
fort, with rough wooden and adobe buildings, enclosed by a tall
wooden fence.
The quirky Bayou Folk Museum in
novelist Kate Chopin 's old home in CLOUTIERVILLE
(Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm; $5), is filled with all
manner of oddities of local interest, along with exhibits relating
to Chopin herself, whose nineteenth-century novel The Awakening
, about a married woman's desire for independence, shocked the
nation.
