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Lake Charles

Lake Charles owes its early development to a happy combination of Captain J.B. Watkins, natural resources and a deepwater port.

In 1887 Watkins moved his New York newspaper to Lake Charles and started an advertising program that, with the terminus of a railroad at New Orleans, resulted in the establishment of a 17 mill lumber industry.

The port is linked to the Gulf of Mexico by the Lake Charles-Calcasieu River and Ship Channel and the Intracoastal Canal.

 

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