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Introduction This project will document parishes, cities and towns throughout Louisiana along with the people and families for which they were named and that were instrumental in their inception. These settlements were influenced by French, Spanish, Irish, Germanic, Italian, African-American and Anglo-American ethnicities, each maintaining a cultural distinction. Louisiana is divided into a nu...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Acadia Parish, Louisiana . Acadia Parish was created on 1887, from St. Landry Parish and the parish was named in honor of the Acadians , descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia. The Parish seat is Crowley. The first settlement of what is now Acadia Parish was made by the exiled Acadians who were induce...