I’m told that the road to Lake Hermitage (Judge Perez) was only paved about four years back—that prior to that, it was just crushed shell, meandering through a decaying oak grove along Bayou Grande Cheniere, which has been cut off from its original source at the Mississippi River. Google certainly knows very little about the area, and I have yet to find property info on the homes that have since been swallowed by the lake, but a local tells me that early commerce in the area centered on trapping and collection of Spanish moss for pillow and mattress stuffing.
