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Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival

Cameron, LA · Quirky

When

January 8–9, 2027

Where

122 Recreation Center Dr, downtown Cameron · Cameron · LA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

One of Louisiana's oldest festivals, dating to 1955, celebrating Cameron Parish's fur-trapping and wildlife economy with a King and Queen Fur pageant, a duck and goose calling contest, and a 5K.

The history within reach

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  One of Louisiana's oldest festivals, dating to 1955, celebrating Cameron Parish's fur-trapping and wildlife economy with a King and Queen Fur pageant, a duck and goose calling contest, and a 5K..

• The Sabine Pass Lighthouse, lit in 1857 and watched from by both sides32 mi

  The light stands on the Louisiana bank across from the Texas town, carried on eight brick buttresses that spread its weight over soft marsh.

• The First Battle of Sabine Pass tightens the Texas blockade33 mi

  A year before the fight that made Sabine Pass famous, the Union navy shelled the Confederate work below Sabine City on 24 and 25 September 1862 and took the pass.

• Dick Dowling's forty seven men break a Union invasion at Sabine Pass33 mi

  On 8 September 1863 a Union force of four gunboats, eighteen transports and close to six thousand troops came up the pass to open a road into Texas.

• Fort Manhassett covers the back way into Sabine Pass33 mi

  Dowling's victory did not solve the obvious problem, which was that a landing party could come ashore west of the pass and walk in behind the guns.