 estherwood is a village in acadia parish, louisiana, united states. the population was 889 at the 2010 census. it is part of the crowley micropolitan statistical area. ==history== the estherwood area had two earlier names, tortue, after the indian chief, and coulÃ©e trief or trive. the coulÃ©e trief name involves jean-baptiste trief, a mysterious person believed to have been one of jean lafitte's pirates, who built a cabin on the coulee, about  west of crowley, louisiana, about 1816. he was described as a "tall, dark, sinister-looking" man who wore large earrings like pirates once did. there are several stories about how estherwood got its name. a likely one is that it is the combination of two names: wood, for a dr. wood who was once prominent in the area, and esther, for the wife of a railroad executive. another is the wood part may come from the fact that the trains stopped for fuel wood here.acadia.lib.la.us jacob kollitz and a. d. leblanc established stores near the trief cabin in the early 1890s, and a little settlement began to grow around them. kollitz also operated the 1
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