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Acadian (Cajun) and French Canadian Emigrants to Louisiana and the Gulf Coast - 1st generation heads of households.
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Acadian Communities in Louisiana as they existed at the time of the first Acadians arrival to present-day Louisiana: Louisiana was under Spanish rule (1762-March 1801) at which time many records were recorded in Spanish (Hence the Spanish names often associated with French names). Louisiana was known as New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain, or Kingdom of New Spain. Original name (present-day name)
- Natchitoches (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish)
- Fort de Mississippi, also called Fort de la Boulaye and Fort Iberville (near Phoenix, Plaquemines Parish)
- New Orleans (New Orleans, Orleans Parish)
- Le Poste de Pointe Coupée or Pointe Coupée (Pointe Coupee, Pointe Coupee Parish)
- St. Jacques de Cabahanoce or Cabanocé or St Jacques (St James, St James Parish)
- Poste des Attakapas or Attakapas (St Martinville, St Martin Parish)
- Poste des Opelousas or Opelousas (Washington, St Landry Parish)
- Fort St-Gabriel or St.-Gabriel d'Iberville or St.-Gabriel (St Gabriel, Iberville Parish)
- Fort Rosalie or San Luìs de Natchez (near present-day Vidalia, Concordia Parish)
- Baton Rouge (Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish)
- La Conception or Nueva Gálvez or San Bernardo or St. Bernard (Saint Bernard, St. Bernard Parish)
- Valenzuéla (near present Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish)
- Ascension (Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish)
- Plattenville (Plattenville, Assumption Parish)
- Bayou des Écores or Feliciana (Thompson Creek, West Feliciana Parish)
- La Chapelle (Abbeville, Vermillion Parish)
- Côte Gelée or Prairie Côte Gelée (Broussard, Lafayette Parish)
- Carencro Prairie or Carencro (Carencro, St Landry Parish)
- Plaquemine Brûlé (Church Point, Acadia Parish)
- Bayou Terrebonne (Houma, Terrebonne Parish)
- Fausse Pointe or Dugasville (Loreauville, Iberia Parish)
- Bayou Lafourche (Napoleonville, Assumption Parish)
The timeline used for dates of Louisiana's settlement is as follow: [English name]
- La Louisiane [Louisiana] or La Louisiane Française [French Louisiana], Nouvelle France [New France]: 1682 - 20 April 1764
- La Luisiana [Spanish Louisiana], Nueva España [New Spain]: 21 April 1764 - 21 March 1801
- La Louisiane [Louisiana] or La Louisiane Française [French Louisiana], Nouvelle France [New France]: 22 March 1801 - 3 July 1803
- Vente de la Louisiane [Louisiana Purchase], United States Territory: 4 July 1803 - 30 September 1804
- Territory of Orleans or Orleans Territory, United States Territory: 1 October 1804 - 29 April 1812
- Louisiana, United States: 30 April 1812