Manchac, Louisiana
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Manchac is a small town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.
Manchac is located on Lake Maurepas on the Pass Manchac waterway, which connects to Lake Pontchartrain. It is home to the ruins of one of the five lighthouses set up for Lake Pontachartrain. The existing lighthouse (the fourth on the site) was completed in 1857 and decommissioned in 1952.
Manchac is known for fishing, duck hunting, seafood restaurants, and swamp tours. It is also home to the Port Manchac Distribution Center, with storage facilities and rail, truck and water links to the east, west and north.
Interstate 55 has exit & entrance ramps for Manchac.
Fort Bute or Manchac Post, named for the British Prime Minister, was established in 1763 at the junction of Iberville River (Bayou Manchac) with the Mississippi River, and remained an important British military and trading post in West Florida until captured by Spanish forces under Bernardo Galvez of Louisiana on September 7, 1779, during what became known as Battle of Fort Bute of the American Revolutionary War.
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