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Lake Bruin
Lake Bruin (May 2013) IMG 7482 1.jpg
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Location Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Type Ox-bow lake
Basin countries United States

Lake Bruin is an ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana. It consists of some 3,000 acres (12 km2) of unusually clear water, particularly suited for swimming, boating, and fishing. Part of the lake is owned by the state, which operates Lake Bruin State Park, one of nineteen Louisiana state parks. Much of the land beside the lake is in private hands, and many fashionable homes, both vacation houses and permanent residences, have been constructed there in recent years. Many of the homes have piers extending into the lake.

Lake Bruin is the ox-bow lake for the St. Joseph area. Other ox-bow lakes include Lake St. Joseph, located in Newellton and across the highway from the nearby Winter Quarters State Historic Site, and Lake St. John near Waterproof.

Lake Bruin is named for Peter Bryan Bruin (1756-1827), a native of Winchester, Virginia, who owned a large plantation on the shores of the lake and resided there for a number of years after 1807. He is interred near Bruinsburg in Claiborne County, Mississippi.

Former State Senator Clifford Cleveland Brooks in 1920 purchased the Botany Bay plantation on Lake Bruin. He served in the State Senate from 1924 to 1932. After Brooks' death in 1944, his widow continued to operate the cotton plantation.

Area district attorney Jefferson B. Snyder, a St. Joseph native, maintained for many years a popular hunting lodge on Lake Bruin where he hosted a variety of governors, U.S. senators, surgeons, publishers, architects, local bootleggers, and African Americans in various occupations.

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  • Another view of Lake Bruin (LA) IMG 7480 1

    Lake Bruin (2013)

  • Lake Bruin near St. Joseph, LA IMG 1248

    Lake Bruin (2008)

  • Private boat dock on Lake Bruin IMG 7481 1

    A private boat dock on Lake Bruin

  • A lone boat on Lake Bruin IMG 1250

    A boat on Lake Bruin on a summer morning

  • Private swimming pier on Lake Bruin, LA 001

    A private swimming pier on Lake Bruin (1972)

  • Lakefront home on Lake Bruin, St. Joseph, LA Picture 380

    A fashionable gated house on Lake Bruin

  • Homemade pier on Lake Bruin

    Since dismantled homemade pier on Lake Bruin at site of the defunct Butler's Lakeview Lodges, operated by Harry Butler (1907-1977) and his wife, Alice Richardson Butler (1910-1995)

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