{{short description|Stream in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, U.S.}} '''Bayou Huffpower''' is a stream in [[Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana|Avoyelles Parish]] between [[Cottonport, Louisiana|Cottonport]] and [[Bunkie, Louisiana]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=GNIS Detail - Bayou Huffpower |url=https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:553470,Bayou%2520Huffpower |access-date=2021-06-24 |website=geonames.usgs.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana Rivers, Lakes & Streams |url=https://louisiana.msghn.org/avoyelles/rivers.html |access-date=2021-06-24 |website=louisiana.msghn.org}}</ref> named for an old settler.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Bulletin United States Geological Survey - Number 194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UgslAQAAIAAJ |publisher=Department of the Interior |year=1902 |pages=37}}</ref> Bayou Hoffpauir was the name of a United States post office in the area.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bayou Hoffpauir |url=https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:4:::NO:4:P4_FID,P4_OBJECTID,P4_FNAME:553470,28302017,Bayou%2520Hoffpauir |access-date=2021-06-24 |website=geonames.usgs.gov}}</ref> Pitt's Mill was located on Bayou Huffpower at Evergreen-Holmesville Road and Layou du Lac Road, two miles west of [[Evergreen, Louisiana]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Joiner |first1=Gary D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-M5VspUe3zYC&pg=PA168 |title=Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864 |last2=D |first2=Professor of History Louisiana State University Gary D. Joiner, PH |date=2007 |publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press |isbn=978-1-57233-571-4 |language=en | page=168}}</ref>
==See also== * Epps plantation ** [[Solomon Northup]], author of the memoir, ''[[Twelve Years a Slave]]'' ** [[Patsey]] * [[Frithland]], a house on the National Register of Historic Places * [[James Madison Wells]], who had a sugar plantation on the bayou called New Hope, near Alexandria
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[[Category:Geography of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana]] [[Category:Wetlands and bayous of Louisiana]]