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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Jefferson Parish was named in honor of US President Thomas Jefferson on February 11, 1825. Adjacent Parishes Lafourche Parish Orleans Parish Plaquemines Parish St. Bernard Parish St. Charles Parish St. Tammany Parish
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jackson Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish was formed in 1845 and named for President Andrew Jackson. Adjacent Parishes Caldwell Parish Ouachita Parish Winn Parish Bienville Parish Lincoln Parish Towns, Villages & Communities Ansley Antioch Chatham East Hodge Eros Hodge Jonesboro (Parish Sea...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish was formed in 1807 and was named for Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, who founded the French colony of Louisiana. Adjacent Parishes East Baton Rouge Parish Ascension Parish West Baton Rouge Parish Assumption Parish St. Martin Parish Pointe Coupée Parish
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Iberia Parish was created in 1868. This territory was part of the sugar parishes, where sugar cane plantations were developed along the waterways before and after the Civil War. Sugar cane was a lucrative commodity crop for planters. Relations between whites and blacks were troubled after ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grant Parish, Louisiana. Grant was one of several new parishes created by the Reconstruction legislature in an attempt to build the Republican Party. Founded in 1869, it was named for U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant . The gubernatorial election of 1872 was disputed, leading to both parties' certifying their slates of local officers....
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin Parish, Louisiana. The parish was founded in 1843 and named for Benjamin Franklin. Adjacent Parishes Catahoula Parish Tensas Parish Caldwell Parish Richland Parish Madison Parish Cities, Towns, Villages & Communities Baskin Crowville Gilbert Winnsboro (Parish Seat) Wisner Cemeteries Cemeteries o...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. The parish was created in 1910. The majority of the area was originally settled by French Canadian colonists and former colonial marines (coureurs de bois) from such outposts as Fort Toulouse and Fort Kaskaskia and later included 19th-century French-speaking soldiers and immigrant families. The early ge...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The parish was part of Feliciana Parish, which was founded and named in 1810 by Spanish rulers, who then controlled the territory. Feliciana is derived from a Spanish rendering of the French name "Felicité", which means happiness. The Spanish governor named it in honor of his wife, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. This area is part of the delta along the western edge of the Mississippi River, long subject to the seasonal flooding that gave the area fertile soils. It was occupied by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. European explorers encountered the historic tribes of the Caddo and Choctaw in this area,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Baton Rouge Parish was created in 1792 in the West Floridas area. The land was divided into E. & W. Baton Rouge Parishes in 1810. East Baton Rouge Parish was created on 1810, from Baton Rouge Parish and the parish was named in honor of the French phrase baton rouge meaning red stick. A red stick wa...
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 c...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. Official Website John Murrell moved his family from Arkansas to the Flat Lick Bayou area about 6 miles west of present-day Homer in 1818, and they became the first known non-natives to permanently settle in Claiborne Parish. As more settlers moved into the area, the Murrell house served as a church, scho...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. Official Website This area was settled primarily by migrants from the southern United States after the Louisiana Purchase, when the US acquired the vast, former French-claimed territory west of the Mississippi River. White migrants to north and central Louisiana were from the South, and were mainly of Br...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Official Website This was part of La Louisiane, colonized by the French beginning in the 17th and early 18th century. They encountered the Atakapa and Choctaw indigenous peoples, who had occupied this area for thousands of years. In the late 1700s, after France had ceded New France (Canada) and other hold...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. Caldwell Parish was formed in 1838 from part of Ouachita & Catahoula Parishes. The prominent geographical feature is the Ouachita River which divides the parish into alluvial farmland on the eastbank and pineland hill country on the west. The area was originally occupied by Native Americans as evidenced by...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Calcasieu Parish was created March 24, 1840, from the parish of Saint Landry, one of the original nineteen civil parishes established by the Louisiana Legislature in 1807 after the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The original parish seat was Comas...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Official Website In 1838, Caddo Parish was created by territory taken from Natchitoches Parish; the legislature named it for the indigenous Caddo Indians who had lived in the area. Most were forced out during Indian Removal in the 1830s. The parish was initially a center of cotton plantations, developed by ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Bossier Parish is named for Pierre Bossier , an ethnic French, 19th-century Louisiana state senator and U.S. representative from Natchitoches Parish . Bossier Parish was spared fighting on its soil during the American Civil War . In July 1861, at the start of the war, the Bossier Parish P...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Official Website In the 1830s, Ruben Drake moved his family from South Carolina to what he named Mount Lebanon, the first permanent settlement in the parish. As the Drakes were devout Baptists , they established a church and school, which evolved into Mount Lebanon University, the forerunner of Louisiana...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The bill to create Beauregard Parish was passed in 1912 and took effect at the beginning of 1913. The Parish was named after P.G.T. Beauregard , a Confederate general. On November 28, 1941, a United Service Organizations was opened in DeRidder. (Of the more than 500 USO's opened during...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Avoyelles Parish is known for its French colonial history and tradition of French language use. The contemporary Creole traditions, in both music and food, reflect European, African and Native American influences. While Avoyelles has a distinctive history of European immigrants, dominate...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Assumption Parish, Louisiana . Official Website In 1807, Assumption became the eighth parish of the Orleans Territory. Its history is rooted in its waterways and its large expanse of fertile soils ideal for farming. Settled in the middle 18th century by French and Spanish settlers, the area retains strong cultural ties to its past w...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Ascension Parish (French: Paroisse de l'Ascension) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana . The parish was created in 1807. During the American Civil War , desertions had been of major concern to the Confederate States Army . Henry Watkins Allen , before he was governor, rep...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Allen Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Allen Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana . It is named for former Confederate States Army general and Governor of Louisiana Henry Watkins Allen . On the western edge of the "Cajun Prairie," Allen Parish is a diverse blend of cultures, including Southern Baptist, Catho...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . This is the master project for Louisiana and its history. State of Louisiana / État de Louisiane Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1643–1715. When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by the Mississippi River for France, he named it La Louisiane, meaning "Land of Louis".[9] Once part ...