Kate Chopin lived in Natchitoches Parish from 1879 to 1884, managing her husband Oscar's plantation and general store in Cloutierville after the family left New Orleans. The Cane River country gave her the raw material for her fiction — the Creole characters, the rural Louisiana settings, the social tensions between races and classes that fill 'Bayou Folk' (1894) and 'A Night in Acadie' (1897). Her masterwork, 'The Awakening' (1899), drew on the same world. The Kate Chopin House in Cloutierville, which had been listed on the National Register, was destroyed by fire in 2008 and removed from the Register in 2015. The physical house is gone, but the literary landscape she wrote from — the Cane River, the plantation allées, the small-town Creole society — is still recognizable today.