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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.
Concordia was named by Anglo-American settlers for a Latin word meaning "harmony". They came mostly after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, when the United States took over this formerly French colonial area. Like other parishes of the lands along the Mississippi River, it was developed largely for cotton cultivation in the antebellum era and the crop depended on the labor of black slaves.
Concordia County was a creation of the first Legislative Council held in New Orleans on December 2, 1804 with territory that included parts of the present parishes of East Carroll, Madison, and Tensas. Land between the Mississippi, Red, Black, and Tensaw rivers comprised the early local administration of Concordia.
During the American Civil War, Concordia Parish was staunchly Confederate. According to the historian John D. Winters in his The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), Concordia, "a planter-dominated parish, displayed unusual Confederate patriotism in early March [1862]. A handsome bounty of $100 was offered to any man who joined one of three designated companies forming for the duration of the war. A bounty of $50 would be paid to those joining either of two companies being raised in the neighboring parish of Catahoula. A $50,000 bond issue was voted to finance the bounty program. . . . $40,000 was appropriated for the relief of needy families of volunteers in the parish."
Adjacent Counties & Parishes
- Tensas Parish
- Adams County, Mississippi
- Wilkinson County, Mississippi
- West Feliciana Parish
- Pointe Coupée Parish
- Avoyelles Parish
- Catahoula Parish
Cities, Towns & Communities
- Acme
- Ashland
- Black Hawk
- Clayton
- Eva
- Fairview
- Ferriday
- Minorca
- Monterey
- Ridgecrest
- Spokane
- Vidalia (Parish Seat)
- West Ferriday
Cemeteries
Links
National Register of Historic Cemetery
Louisiana Genealogy & History Network
