Estherwood is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 807 at the 2000 United States Census. It is part of the Crowley, Louisiana Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History
The Estherwood area had two earlier names, Tortue, after the Indian chief, and Coul??e Trief or Trive. The Coul??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 six miles west of Crowley, Louisiana, about 1816. He was described as a'tall, dark, sinister-looking'man who wore large earrings like pirates once did.

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Estherwood is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 807 at the 2000 United States Census. It is part of the Crowley, Louisiana Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History
The Estherwood area had two earlier names, Tortue, after the Indian chief, and Coul??e Trief or Trive. The Coul??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 six miles 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.

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 15 room Estherwood Hotel for a time, but it was closed in 1907.

The settlement began to grow just after the turn of the century with the Miller-Morris Canal, one of the first large rice irrigation systems, which helped establish the rice industry in the area, followed in 1900 by the opening of the Eureka rice mill at Estherwood.