Traveler revealed in a south Louisiana April
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The little steamer Fairy carried the mail from Franklin to Lake Verret near Napoleonville in the 1850s, holding the contract because it could make the trip in only six hours when the wind blew wrong and a lot faster on a nice, quiet day. The steamer met a mail coach that ran to the lake from Donaldsonville, putting Franklin within only 20 hours of New Orleans.

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