Trade, of course, attracts crime, and on the open water, pirates. In the early 1900s a man who looked little like a character from pirates of the Caribbean made a name for himself in that ancient profession.
On Louisiana highway 1, just south of the leeway bridge in Jefferson parish, not far from where the road ends, is a marker for the Cheniere Caminada cemetery, all that remains of a once thriving town that disappeared virtually overnight.