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Extinct settlement, Madison Parish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duckport (also Duck Port or Duckport Landing) was a plantation and boat landing in Madison Parish, Louisiana, United States,[2] best known today as one of the endpoints of the unsuccessful Duckport Canal project during the American Civil War. An alternate name for the Duckport Landing was Sparta.[3]
In the 19th century, Duckport Landing was located between Paw Paw Island and Young's Point along the Mississippi River.[1] There was a boat landing at Duckport that was used by mail packet steamboats beginning sometime before 1852.[4] In 1869, the application for a Duck Port post office stated there were about 150 families in the vicinity who would be served by the station.[5]
The sternwheel packet boat Ben Hur burned and sank at Duckport in March 1916.[6] Duckport was flooded in spring 1922.[7] There was an illegal 150-gallon still in operation near Duckport during Prohibition.[8] A fragment of the civil war-era canal was still visible in 1933 from a gravel road that ran from Thomaston to Duckport.[9][10] Thomaston Road had been the "center of wealth" in the area before the war and had been lined with plantation houses.[11] By the 21st century, all that was left of the canal was "a small indentation because area farmers tried to plow it down."[11]
The Duckport Plantation encompassed about 1800 acres as of the 1990s.[12] Duckport Landing no longer exists and has disappeared under the Mississippi River.[13]
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