Consult Encyclopodis of Forts, Camps, Named Camps, and other Military Installations in Louisiana 1700-1981
BY Powell A. Casey
printed by Claitor's Pub. Div. BR, LA

I am trying to find any information on Camp Plauche, Louisiana

I saw your message about Camp Plauche. That was a military camp in Jefferson Parish. It was just down the Mississippi River from Harahan, Louisiana in an area called Jefferson today.
Karen

CAMP PLAUCHE WAS LOCATED OFF OF JEFFERSON HWY IN WHAT IS NOW CALLED JEFFERSON LA IT WAS LOCATED NOT FAR FROM THE HUEY P LONG BRIDGE ON THE RIGHT SIDE BUT DONT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHERE BUT WAS LOCATED IT THAT SECTION IT WAS A USED AS A PROJECT

Camp Plauche did start out as an army camp in Jefferson. My dad says that when the army camp was shut down, Camp Plauche actually became a housing unit. He lived there with my grandparents and a few of his brothers.

Camp Plauche was located where the Elmwood Industrial Business Park is now located in Harahan, Jefferson Parish, LA. Most of the street names have changed, but there is a Plauche Court. Edwards Avenue still has the same name.

My dad says that at the time he lived there, there was a tavern that everyone hung out at to watch TV and listen to the jukebox. He met my mother there, so we're talking about 1950 or so. He said they had their own bakery, grocery store, and police station.

The tavern was owned by a man named (Earl?) Bowe; his son owned the grocery (I think he said his name was Lionel Bowe - it was something with an L). The sheriff was a one-armed man whose name he couldn't remember. There was a young man working at the bakery whose name was Frank Randazzo

Does anyone happen to know the street address of Camp Plauche in the 1950's. This would be the time it was used as a post-war housing unit. My husband is searching for his birth mother and one of the addresses given for her at the time of birth was 5400 Jefferson Hwy.

When we looked up this address in a 1954 city directory it is the Foudation Hospital which was an early location for Ochsner Hospital and was also on the old Camp Plauche site near the Huey P. Long Bridge. My husband was told he was born at Baptist Hospital so I don't think that is the birth hospital address for his birth mother. We thought that possibly she was living at Camp Plauche at the time.

We have found out that his birth mother's name was Rebecca Clark and she named my husband "Floyd" at birth. My husband was born 2/11/54. If any one has any information about a Clark family living at Camp Plauche in 1954 please let us know. Thanks!

We lived in Camp Plauche around 1947 - 1948. I have a few (poor) photos of it. If you're still interested, I'll try to find an address.
Dave

Hi Dave,
My husband was adopted in New Orleans in 1954. The address given for his birth mother was in on Jefferson Hwy. Where the Jefferson Industrial Park is located now.

We thought that possibly the address given was maybe that of the old Camp Plauche. We weren't able to find out the actual address of Camp Plauche.

My husband's birth mother's name was Rebecca Clark and he was named Floyd Clark at birth. He apparently had 2 or 3 other siblings also named Clark. So we were also trying to locate any one who lived in Camp Plauche who may have known either his birth mother or siblings.

Thanks for contacting us!
Marie and Wendel Hall

Well, I was only 2 when we moved there in '47 and we moved again sonn afterwards to Metarie. I remember a family friend named Dummville, but no more. I know they started tearing down the camp around 1947. There was a hospital there for some time afterwards.
I doubt the adddress was for the camp, maybe for the hospital?
Anyway, good luck with your search.
Dave

Thanks Dave! I had heard there was a hospital there too. I think it was the first location of Ochsner Foundation Hospital. Thanks you your help.
Marie Hall