Estherwood, LA

Estherwood is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2020 census counted 694 residents. Estherwood 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. Estherwood makes sense once you see how its past, landscape, and current gathering spots overlap. The useful thing to know about Estherwood is that its older landmarks and current settings belong to one connected place. 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.