A detailed and well illustrated of the communities of Ward 11 of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. These communities were built along the rich agricultural soils of Bayou des Glaises where plantations thrived before the Civil War and where farming is still the main economy. Hundreds of historic photos and histories of the communities of Long Bridge, Hamburg, Voorhies, Lemoine Lane, Borodino, and Tilden. Actual rare never before published images of the over 1000 foot long wooden bridge which gave the Long Bridge community its name.