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Lake Bistineau

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Lake Bistineau is a steamboat channel created by a Red River log jam in 1793. Twelve miles south is Lake Bistineau State Park, near a salt dome where salt was manufactured by some 1500 people during the War Between the States blockade.
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Lake Bistineau State Park, Louisiana
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