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Between the levee and the river there is a strip of land called the batture. Squatters lived on the batture until the Corps and levee police drove them away after World War II. Of course during the springtime with the river in flood stage the batture was swept clean.
Stories of lawless behavior, prostitution and gambling on the batture must be treated as urban legends until I can find more believable sources.
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