INTRACOASTAL CITY : Vermilion Parish Towns & Cities, Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy LaCombe-Tell
Source: Jim Bradshaw; Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser, 6/24/1997
Submitted August 2004

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INTRACOASTAL CITY 

It was in the middle 1840s when Robert Green moved his wife and two 
sons to a 40-acre tract at the mouth of the Vermilion River. The area 
was known then as Lower Egypt. Today it is Intracoastal City. 

Robert Green wanted to raise hogs in Lower Egypt, but things didn't 
work out for him. He sold out and moved to Nunez. The Whites, Fosters, 
Kibbes, and Cessaces moved in to farm, fish and trap the area. 

About 1930, a group of investors from outside Louisiana bought the 
Belle Isle property 15 miles southwest of Intracoastal City and formed 
the Louisiana Furs Corporation. This spurred the first minor 
development of the place as a stepping off point, and Mr. and Mrs. 
Alpha Richard opened a boat landing and gasoline pump there. Before 
that, guests for the newly formed club had to be taken by boat from 
Abbeville. 

In 1941, the Intracoastal Waterway reached the area, and the 
intersection of river and canal close to the Gulf created new 
opportunities. Real estate developers renamed the place Intracoastal 
City. 

In 1949, Petroleum Helicopters established a base, and in 1959, N. R. 
Broussard established a boatyard there. They and their neighbors were 
soon to reap the harvest of offshore oil development. At the height of 
operations in the Gulf in the 1980s, some 200 oil and gas related 
businesses had facilities of one sort or another in Intracoastal City. 

In 1964, Seacoast Products opened a menhaden processing plant there and 
continues to operate pogey boats from the place. Shrimpers and other 
fishermen also use Intracoastal City as a port of call.