19 year old James Salamites was driving with five of his friends in Hartford, Connecticut the night of October 14, 1975. He drove through a green light, only to strike a vehicle going through the intersection.
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.