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THE POST-SIGNAL / Steve Bandy
William Thibodeaux tells members of the Crowley Lions Club of the efforts of J.G. Medlenka to establish Crowley as a “Gateway to the Gulf” in the early 1900s. The story of the Medlenka River is one of more than 20 stories included in Thibodeaux’s book, “Hidden History of Acadiana.”

Crowley a river port?

A one-man crusade to make his home town an inland port was mounted in 1904 by a Crowley attorney and ...

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