1964 – 1969
The Toledo Bend Inundation
The geography and genealogical history of Sabine Parish was permanently altered between 1964 and 1969 with the construction of the Toledo Bend Reservoir. The flooding of over 186,000 acres of timberland required the inundation of historic bottomland communities, notably Ebarb and Pine Flat.
This monumental engineering project forced the delicate relocation of several ancestral cemeteries belonging to the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb and early Spanish-colonial pioneers. Records of these relocations and existing historical gravesites are maintained through local historical societies and the Sabine Parish Clerk of Court.
- 186,000
- Acres Inundated
- 1969
- Year Completed