Natchitoches and Cane River made Southern Living’s Top 20 list for the South’s Best Small Towns to Visit in 2016. Southern Living says, “Local historians swear this is where New Orleans got the idea for all that wrought iron in the French Quarter. Judging by the facades along Front Street, which predates the French Quarter, we believe them.”

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