POINT OF View.(Brief Article)

Publication: Texas Monthly

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Surrounded by impressive cypress trees, the sprawling maze of bayous known as Caddo Lake is tucked in the Piney Woods of East Texas. With half of the lake in Texas and the other half in Louisiana, where else can you visit a couple of states in a few minutes by boat? Not only is Caddo Lake the largest natural lake of fresh water in the south, (covering around 27,000 acres), it was the only natural lake in Texas until the early 1900s. Around that time the lake was artificially dammed when they struck oil. Flood control was also a...

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