Estherwood is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 889 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Estherwood area had two earlier names, Tortue, after the Indian chief, and Coulée Trief or Trive. The Coulée Trief name involves Jean-Baptiste Trief, a mysterious person believed to h…Estherwood is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 889 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Estherwood area had two earlier names, Tortue, after the Indian chief, and Coulée Trief or Trive. The Coulée Trief name involves Jean-Baptiste Trief, a mysterious person believed to have been one of Jean Lafitte's pirates, who built a cabin on the coulee, about 6 miles west of Crowley, Louisiana, about 1816. He was described as a "tall, dark, sinister-looking" man who wore large earrings like pirates once did.
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