They Called us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans by Macon Fry

Author:Macon Fry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2021-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Adam Rowbatham with children, Lillian and Harold. Originally published in Kent and Margaret Lighty, Shanty-boat (New York: Century [now Hawthorne Publishing], 1930).

Between those first homesteaders, a retired mariner constructed an eight-foot-by-five-foot tin shack. A fisherman named Uncle Will moved in and set his lines, and in June 1925, a groom carried his bride down the levee and over a plank onto their floating first home.

Itinerant folks in tents and boats came and went, but the settlement became a community, a place where people moved for personal reasons. Many stayed through three decades of shared challenges. On May 5, 1925, a New Orleans Item-Tribune writer christened the settlement “River Village,” a “humble little suburb” where a “kindly, helpful group of struggling folk live ’twixt water and shore at the edge of New Orleans.”

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