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Fort Polk, now named Fort Johnson, is a United States Army installation located in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, about 10 miles east of Leesville and 30 miles north of DeRidder in Beauregard Parish. Fort Polk was named in honor of Louisiana native son, Leonidas Polk. Polk was a prominent Episcopal bishop, and corps commander in the Confederate Army. The fort is now named after New York soldier Wi...
This cemetery is located on 623 US-80, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. It's also known as Monroe Memorial Park . Find a Grave Louisiana Gravestones
This cemetery is located on 3994 Monroe Highway, between Ball and Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Find a Grave Billion Graves
The Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church Cemetery in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, was laid out on a grid plan shortly after the church parish was founded in 1772. It contains several interesting raised tombs of stuccoed brick or stone featuring temple fronts of different styles, which date from the mid-nineteenth century. Donaldsonville Catholics Find a Grave Virtual T...
This project is used to relate all units from Louisiana who served in the Confederate Army.
This project is for those buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery located in Forest, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It's also known as New Forest Cemetery . Find a Grave
Louisiana based genealogy research. Submit and search for surnames in Louisiana . Google Form Submission - Louisiana Surnames Louisiana Researchers - Add Your Surnames and Location of your surname research in Louisiana
The Baleine Brides were a group of 88 French women that were sent to French Louisiana (la Louisiane), arriving 8 Jan 1721 in Biloxi, the then capital of la Louisiane. These women purportedly volunteered to travel to la Louisiane to marry eligible bachelors who were settling the colony. They arrived on the French cargo ship Baleine , which is how they got their nickname. These women came from Ma...
The First Battle of Donaldsonville took place on August 9, 1862, in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, as part of the Operations against Baton Rouge in the American Civil War. A number of incidents of artillery firing on Union steamers passing up and down the Mississippi River at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, influenced the U.S. Navy to undertake a retaliatory attack. Rear Adm. David G. Farragut sent t...
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Please add profiles of those who were born in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Official Website Overview Baton Rouge, from French, meaning 'red stick', is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana . Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River , it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish , the most populous parish in Louisiana. It is the 99th most populous city in the Unit...
Southeastern Louisiana University is a public university in Hammond, Louisiana. It was founded in 1925 by Linus A. Sims as Hammond Junior College. Sims succeeded in getting the campus moved to north Hammond in 1928, when it became known as Southeastern Louisiana College. It achieved university status in 1970. In the fall of 2019 there were 14,298 students enrolled. During the 1990s, Southeaste...
Refugees from the Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) that immigrated into New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and elsewhere from 1791 to 1810.Resources* Settlers of St. Domingue, 1750-1800 * Surnames of Some Saint-Domingue Refugee Families * The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792–1809 * From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences * The 1809 Immigration of Saint-Domi...
Wikipedia =Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational, Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of 28 member institutions that make up the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universit...
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA:
The Battle of Plains Store was fought on May 21, 1863, in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, during the campaign to capture Port Hudson in the American Civil War. Union troops advancing from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, clashed with 600 Confederates at a road junction. The initial Confederate force withdrew, but 400 more Confederates arrived from Port Hudson. Some of the Confederate reinforcement o...
Also called Battle of Cane's Crossing and Battle of Monett's Bluff . Near the end of the Red River Expedition , Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks 's army evacuated Grand Ecore and retreated to Alexandria, pursued by Confederate forces. Banks's advance party, commanded by Brig. Gen. William H. Emory , encountered Brig. Gen. Hamilton P. Bee 's cavalry division near Monett's Ferry (Cane River Crossing...
The Red River campaign or Red River expedition comprised a series of battles fought along the Red River in Louisiana during the American Civil War from March 10 to May 22, 1864. The campaign was a Union initiative, fought between approximately 30,000 Union troops under the command of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, and Confederate troops under the command of Lieutenant General Richard Taylor,...
Blacks born in Louisiana prior to 1810 from the 1850 census of Louisiana, 647 PeopleReturn to the State of Louisiana Project*, Sophy, , Adlam, New Orleans Municipality 2 Ward 2, Orleans, Louisiana, 1810, Louisiana, Female *, J, B, Aimi, New Orleans Municipality 3 Ward 2, Orleans, Louisiana, 1805, Louisiana, Male *, Francoise, , Alcantarat, New Orleans Municipality 3 Ward 1, Orleans, Louisiana, ...
Cypress Grove Cemetery became the first cemetery built to honor New Orleans volunteer firemen and their families with the help of New Orleans philanthropist Stephen Henderson in 1838. Henderson’s estate left property to the Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association. The charitable association sold this property to fund the purchase of the cemetery site at the end of Canal Street and the for...
This cemetery is located on 152 Cryer Cemetery Road, Oakdale, Allen Parish, Louisiana. Find a Grave USGW Archives
This cemetery is located in Cotton Valley, Webster Parish, Louisiana. Find a Grave Louisiana Gravestones
For all member of the Cabler, Kappler, Kabler, Cabbler, (and other various spelling) families.
The German Coast (French: Côte des Allemands) was a region of the early Louisiana settlement located above New Orleans on the Mississippi River — specifically, in St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, Ascension and St. James parishes of present-day Acadiana. Its name derives from the large population of German pioneers, who were settled in 1721 by John Law, and the Company of the Indies. When the ...
Wikipedia =Louisiana Tech University, colloquially referred to as Louisiana Tech or La. Tech, is a coeducational public research university in Ruston, Louisiana, United States. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier One national university by the 2016 U.S. News & World Report college rankings and is the only Tier One national university in the nine-member University of Louisiana System. It is a...