Grand Isle, LA (WVUE) -In late 1893, Gulf Coast community of Cheniere Caminada must have seemed a paradise. Caminada, just east of Grand Isle, was something of a boom town, providing fisheries to ...

In the late 1800s, Cheniere Caminada was a thriving fishing village. It was the high ground in the coastal prairie. There were cottages on the gulf beach and fishing on the bay. It was a good life ...

An open house to celebrate the completion of the permanent displays intended to preserve the history of Cheniere Caminada is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the South Lafourche Public Library ...

The 1893 storm best known for virtually obliterating Cheniere Caminada also devastated low-lying communities along the Terrebonne coast. One account of such destruction is preserved in a newspaper ...