| Old |
New |
| First Acadian
Coast |
St. James
Parish |
| Second Acadian
Coast |
Ascension
Parish |
| Ainse de la
Graise "Greazy Bend" [L'Anse a la Graisse] and Nuevo Madrid - located on the shores of the Mississippi River
about 12 leagues below the mouth of the
Ohio River |
New Madrid,
Missouri |
| Arkansas Post
- Poste de Arkansea
at Quapaw Indians Village
of Osotouy, near mouth of Arkansas River at Mississippi River. Moved
several times because of flooding. Named Fort Carlos III under Spanish
Rule. In 1862, the Confederates constructed a massive earthen
fortification at the site known as Fort Hindman. The Union Army destroyed
Fort Hindman in January 1863, ensuring control of the Arkansas River. |
State of
Arkansas - original site about 9 miles south of Gillett, Arkansas. |
| Attakapas Post |
Current
parishes of St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion & Iberia |
| Baillou
[bayou] aux Canes |
near Nementau
[Mermentau] |
| Barataria
Founded in 1779 by Galvez to settle a group of Canary Islanders. It
never managed to have it's own church and was soon abandoned. |
South of New Orleans on the
shores of Lake Salvador and near Barataria Bay. There is also a Bayou
and a passage of the same name. |
| Bayou des
Ecores |
Thompson's
Creek |
| Bayou Goula
Mugulasha Indian village captured by Bayougoulas. In 1699
Bienville here found Tonti’s letter of 1686 to LaSalle. Father Paul Du
Ru built first chapel in Louisiana near village in 1700 |
Part of White Castle in Iberville
Parish |
| Bayougoula Village [also
Tabiscana] Bayougoula Village, 1713.
Settled by Canadians and French; later by Germans, Acadians, Spaniards.
Here in 1730 Governor Perrier organized expedition against Natchez
Indians. Early cattle raising center. French records referred to area as
Tabiscana |
Vacherie |
| Bayou Queue de Tortue [Bayou of
line of turtles] |
Part of the Mermentau River
Watershed. Begins near Lafayette and is the natural border
separating Lafayette Parish and Acadia Parish to the West and Vermilion
Parish to the South. Was first settled by the Attakapas Indians
and named after Chief Celestine de la Tortue - see the Indian Chiefs in
SW LA records page at
http://www.thecajuns.com/icswla.htm The Queue de Tortue Indian
Village was near present-day Rayne, LA. |
| Beau Bassin |
Area in North
Lafayette Parish between Bayous Vermilion and Carencro |
| Bluffs of Walnut
Hills |
Vicksburg, MS |
| Boré Plantation |
Audubon Park
Audubon Park. This site 1781-1820 Plantation of Jean Etienne Boré
(1741-1820) First Mayor of N.O. 1803-1804. Here Boré first granulated
sugar in 1795. Purchased for park in 1871. Site of World’s Industrial
and Cotton Exposition 1884-1885. |
| Bois de Mallet |
Swords/Mallet area: a small
community about halfway between Opelousas and Eunice |
| Brashear, Town
of
Named for Dr.
Walter Brashear who was born in MD abt. 1776‚and died in Louisiana in
1860. Famed as surgeon in Kentucky, 1806. Settled Attakapas, LA, 1809.
Became large landowner, sugar planter in St. Mary, serving many years in
Louisiana Legislature. Town of Brashear, now Morgan City, incorporated
1860. |
Morgan City
Early gateway from the Mississippi to Teche. Site of
Tiger Island Plantation of Dr. Walter Brashear, 1860; renamed 1876, for
Charles Morgan who made the port a leading steamboat, railroad hub. |
| Cabanocey [Cabannocé,
Cabannoche, Cabahannocer] |
St. James
Parish |
| Cannes Brulees
[burnt cane] |
Kenner |
|
Cantrelle Parish [Parish of
Cantrelle]
Note: The first church in
the current parish of St. James was at the town of St. James on the West
side of the Mississippi River. The church was later moved to Covent on the
East side of the River. |
St. James
Parish |
|
Carrollton, Town of Laid out by Charles
Zimpel in 1833 on site of Macarty Plantation, formerly uppermost part of
Bienville’s 1719 land grant. Jefferson Parish seat 1852-1874. Annexed
1874 by New Orleans. 1854 courthouse designed by Henry Howard |
Annexed by New Orleans in 1874 |
| Chapitoulas [Choupitoulas,
Tchoupitoulas] Note: Choupitoulas
Indians - name meant "river people" |
Metairie |
| Charles Town, Charleston
M. and Mme. LeBleu of Bordeaux, France were the first
recorded Europeans to settle the area around 1781. The area they settled
is now known as the LeBleu Settlement. Charles Sallier married LeBleu's
daughter, Catherine. The Salliers built their home on the shell beach
where Lake Charles now stands. Afterwards, the lake became known as
"Charlie's lake". By 1860 this area was being called "Charles Town".
Many of Charles Sallier's descendants are buied in Sallier Cemetery,
near St. Patrick's Hospital.
The Rio Hondo, which flowed through Lake Charles, was later called
Quelqueshue, an Indian term meaning "Crying Eagle", and still later,
Calcasieu. On March 7, 1861, Lake Charles was incorporated as the town
of Charleston, Louisiana. On March 16, 1867, Charleston, Louisiana, was
incorporated into the town of Lake Charles |
Lake Charles |
| Chicot Noir
[black stump] |
Jeanerette, LA
Jeanerette is named for its founder and first postmaster, John
Jeanerette, who also operated a local tavern and store. |
| Concordia The
Spanish established a fort across the Mississippi River from Natchez in
1768. It was abandoned in 1779 after Galvez captured Natchez. When
Gayoso de Lemos was named Commandant of the district of Natchez, he
built an elegant residence on his estate across the river and named it
Concordia. The name was chosen to recognize the good relations that
Gayoso had established with the anglo inhabitants in the Natchez
District. In 1798, Jose Vidal, Commandant of Natchez obtained a land
grant on the opposite side of the river from Natchez. The new Spanish
Post was named Concordia because of the proximity to Gayoso's estate. A
few years later, a new parochial parish was named Concordia and the fort
was renamed Vidalia. |
Vidalia, LA & Concordia
Parish |
|
Côtes Gélees [frozen hills] - see
below for reason for this name and also why sites
on a prairie were called île, pointe and anse. Area between
present-day Pilette and Broussard. |
n/a |
|
Côte des Allemands [German Coast] |
Present-day St. Charles and St.
John the Baptist Parishes |
| Crane's Forge
in Assumption Parish
In 1860, this was the site of several sugar
plantations and a post office. Actual location is not determined,
but from an old map it appears to have been on the west side of Bayou
LaFourche, in or near the present town of Bellerose, which is six "air"
miles southwest of Donaldsonville. |
n/a |
| Cypremort Prairie |
Cypremort Point & Louisa |
|
Dupart's Bend |
Present-day
Plaquemine Point in Iberville Parish |
|
English Turn [Detours des Anglais] Historical Marker - So named
because in this bend, 1699, Bienville, coming downstream, met the
British who had come up river to choose site for a settlement. Bienville
convinced Captain Lewis Banks that the territory was in possession of
the French. Early concessions were established in the vicinity
***
From The Second Voyage to the Mississippi, The Journal of the Renommee
by Iberville
"...From Cape San Antonio I steered for the Biloxy Bay anchorage, at
which I arrived on January 8, 1700, and moored it's two anchors in 21 feet
of water.
"The 9th. In the morning M. De Sauvolle came aboard. I learned from him
that the garrison was in good health, although four men had died, among
them two Canadians, one buccaneer, and one enlisted man for La Rochelle.
"He told me that an English corvette of ten guns, commanded by Captain
Louis Bance, had entered the Mississippi and gone 25 leagues upstream,
where my brother, De Bienville, with five men in two bark canoes, had
come across the corvette at anchor, awaiting favorable winds to go
higher upstream. My brother sent two men to tell him to immediately
leave the country, which was in the possession of the king, and that, if
he did not leave, he would force him to. With this he complied after
talking with my brother, whom he knew from having seen him with me at
Hudson Bay, where I captured this captain. |
English Turn |
| Fause Riviere [False River]
Upper end of Fause Riviere, old Mississippi River bed.
Resulted when the river followed the narrow stream over a neck of land
(Pointe Coupee). Used in 1699 by Iberville and party to shorten their
route up river. Nearby Fort St. Joseph est’b. c. 1718; St. Francis
church, 1738. |
Pointe Coupee
Narrow stream over portage widened by Iberville and
Bienville, 1699. Shortly after 1700 Mississippi River had formed point
cut off, a crescent shaped land, Pointe Coupee. |
| Felicianas - named in honor of
Felicidad de St. Maxent, daughter of Antoine de St. Maxent and wife of
Governor Bernardo de Galvez. |
East and West Feliciana Parishes |
| Flagville
Named for O.J. Flagg, 1870. Now a part of Hahnville.
Letter left here by Tonti, 1686 with Quinipissa Chief for LaSalle.
Taensa Village, 1713. De Meuve, French Concession, 1718. Site included
grant to Joseph Roi de Villere, 1765. |
Now part of Hahnville, LA |
| Fort de la
Boulaye in Plaquemines Parish
Also known as Fort
Iberville and Fort du Mississippi, this fort was located on the
west bank of the Mississippi River. It was built in 1700 as a 28'
square blockhouse with a half dozen cannons. Its strategic location
helped the French hold this part of the river and thus the state. In
1704 or so, it was abandoned. |
near Myrtle Grove, LA
|
| Fort Duquesne |
Pittsburg, PA |
|
Fort Jackson in Plaquemines Parish
This old American
military post was located on SH 23, and the west bank of the Mississippi
River, 2.5 miles southeast of Triumph, about 70 miles southeast of New
Orleans. It was built in 1822-1832, and occupied in 1861 by the
Confederate Army. It is a large, star-shaped brick fort with a
surrounding moat. It was built to protect New Orleans, but on April
18, 1862, Admiral Farragut and his fleet of 43 boats, battled the fort for
over a week. New Orleans fell, the fort surrendered, and his forces
occupied them. Since 1961, Fort Jackson has been a National Historic
Monument. |
n/a |
| Fort Nogales - popularly known as
the "Gibraltar of Louisiana" |
Vicksburg, MS |
| Fort New Richmond
Name given to Baton Rouge by the British when gained
control in 1763. The Spanish renamed it Fort San Carlos [St. Charles]
and it was the capital of the province of Western Florida. |
Baton Rouge Note: Baton Rouge
[Red Stick] was the original name given by Lasalle |
| Fort Rosalie
Port City on the Mississippi River about 60 miles S.W. of Vicksburg, and
about 250 miles upriver from the mouth of the Mississippi River. It
was settled by Bienville in 1716. |
Natchez, MS |
| Fort St. Joseph
Located on the St. Joseph River; Est. 1691 by the French; after 1761,
held by the British; captured by Native Americans in Pontiac's Rebellion
in 1763, but was recaptured by the British; captured by the Spanish
during the American Revolution; some moved to LA |
Niles, Michigan
Known as the City of Four Flags |
| Fort St. Louis
de Natchez |
Near Vidalia on the west side of the
Mississippi River [Note: Natchez, MS is on the east-side of the River
across from Vidalia. |
| Fort San Carlos [St. Charles]
See Fort New Richmond above |
Baton Rouge |
| Fort Toulouse I & II on the Coosa
Named in honor of Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, the Count of
Toulouse who was the dominant member of the Council of Marine which
performed the function of secretary or minister of the navy and of
colonies from 1715 to 1718. He was the legitimized son of King Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.
Toulouse was one of the known provinces in southern
France.
The fort was referred to as Fort or Post des Alibamons or simply as
aux Alibamons. It was later named Fort Jackson in honor of
President Andrew Jackson. |
The site of Fort Toulouse, established by the French
in 1717, was near the junction of the Coosa River and the Tallapousa
about 4 miles south of Wetumpka, Alabama and 10 miles north of
Montgomery, Alabama. In 1751, the site of the Fort was moved about 100
south of the original Fort Toulouse I. This site is known as Fort
Toulouse II and it was designed by Francois Saucier in 1750. Fort
Toulouse II was occupied by the French until 1763 when the territory
east of the Mississippi River went to England. The soldiers and settlers
from Fort Toulouse went to Mobile and then to Louisiana [most ended up
in the Opelousas Post] |
| Galveztown [Villa de Galvez]
Old Spanish town at junction of Amite River and Bayou
Manchac. Settled by Anglo-Americans, 1776-78, seeking Spanish refuge
from American Revolution, and by Canary Islanders (Islenos). Named for
Spanish Governor Bernardo de Galvez. Town was abandoned by 1810 |
n/a Note: The current town of Galvez is not at the same location as
Galveztown |
| First German
Coast |
St. Charles
Parish |
| Second German
Coast |
St. John the
Baptist Parish |
| Germantown in
Webster Parish
On Germantown Road,
seven miles northeast of Minden. This old German socialist-utopian
colony was founded in 1835 and lasted for 37 years. Three original
buildings remain, and other buildings have been re-created.
According to the historical marker the community was active until 1971. |
n/a |
| Golden Coast |
First and Second Acadian Coasts: St.
James and Ascension Parishes along the Mississippi River. |
| Grand Côte |
Weeks Island |
| Illinois Region - see
Map of French Colonial LA |
|
|
Cahokia
Church: Ste-Famille
registers: marriages:1735-1839; burials:1784-1794; census:1735,1752,1787 |
St. Clair, Cahokia, Co., Illinois |
|
Fort de Chartres
Church: St. Anne
registers: 1720-1765 [births, marriages, deaths] |
Fort de Chartres is located four miles west of Prairie
du Rocher, Illinois, on State Route 155, or 37 miles south of
Belleville, Illinois |
|
Kaskaskia
It was the main settlement in the Illinois
Region during the French and Spanish Colonial Periods.
Church: Notre-Dame de la Conception
registers: 1695-1834 [births, marriages, deaths]
census records: 1726, 1752, 1787 |
Village of Kaskaskia [historical
landmark] in Randolph County, Illinois |
| Fort Vincennes
Church:St-François-Xavier
registers: 1749-1786 [births, marriages, deaths] |
Vincennes, Knox Co., Indiana |
| Prairie du Rocher
Church: St-Joseph
Registers:1761-1799 [births, marriages, deaths] |
Prairie du Rocher, Randolph Co.,
Illinois |
| End of Illinois Region Entries |
|
| Iberville
River [River D'Iberville] |
Bayou Manchac
- Amite River |
| Indian Creek
[also Lieu dit
Chetimachas] |
Charenton
[Note: Charenton was also
the original site for New Iberia. The site was moved when the spring rains
flooded the area] |
| Isle aux
Cannes |
area SE of New
Iberia between the Commercial Canal and Lydia |
| L'ile des Cypres |
South of present-day Breaux
Bridge |
| Isle aux Marais |
Bayougoula Towhead, an island in
the Mississippi River above White Castle, Louisiana |
| Ile Piquant[e], Isle Piquant[e]
Prairie
Note: Piquant is French for "pricky" or "prickly". The Spanish word "picante"
means sharp. Apparently there were prickly plants growing in the
area. |
Current day Patoutville |
| Jefferson City
Originally a part of Jefferson Parish,
this area was incorporated as Jefferson City in 1850. By 1860 its
population was 5,107, including 131 free black citizens, It was annexed
by the City of New Orleans in 1870 |
Annexed by City of New Orleans in
1870 |
| Laclede's
Village [Founded November 1763]
Named for founder Pierre Laclede Liguest.
In 1764, settlers from the east bank villages of Cahokia and St. Philippe
moved to the west bank in 1764 because the territory to the east was given
to England at the end of the French and Indian War. The settlement
became known as Laclede's Village, but the official name of St. Louis was
given to the village by Pierre in honor of the Crusader King, Louis IX of
France. |
St. Louis,
Missouri |
| La Chapelle |
Abbeville
Founded in 1843 by Father Antoine Desire Megret, a native of Abbeville,
France, on land purchased from Joseph LeBlanc. |
| La Concepcion
Mentioned in a 1791 letter by Galvez as one of 5 places established. The
exact location is undetermined but it was in the region known as Terre
aux Boeufs. It was also known as San Bernardo de Galvez and Nueva Galvez |
St. Bernard in St. Bernard Parish |
| La Côte
Francaise [aka Londell]
La Cote Francaise Settled in 1800 via Amite
River by French, German,and Italian emigres. Jovial Creole culture was
unique. Cypress sawmills, trapping, shingle making, farms and steamboat
service once thrived here |
French
Settlement |
| La Fausse
[False] Pointe |
originally, Fausse Pointe was the
section on both sides of the Bayou Teche as it made a bend from
present-day Loreauville to Morbihan. Today, Fausse Pointe refers to the area near Lake
Fausse Pointe. |
| Lafourche des
Chitimachas Note: Initial settlement
at current-day Donaldsonville and was part of Second Acadian Coast |
Lafourche,
Terrebonne and parts of Ascension and Assumption parishes. |
| Lafourche:
Upper and Lower [Lafourche Interior] |
Upper Lafourche covered Ascension
and Assumption Parishes along the Lafourche Bayou. Lower Lafourche
[Lafourche Interior] covered the present-day parishes of Lafourche and
Terrebonne. |
| l'Église de La Nouvelle-Acadie
aux Attakapas [The Church of New Acadia at Attakapas] - established in
1765 |
St. Martin de Tours Church in St. Martinville, LA - present church built
in 1844 |
| La Manque
|
St. Martinville |
| La Petite Anse
[also, McCall & Marsh Island] |
Avery Island |
| La Pointe de
Repos Early
Settlement on the Bayou Teche above present-day Parks where the Teche made
a large westward bend. The settlers left because of a yellow fever
epidemic |
Parks |
| La Pointe &
Pont du Breaux |
Breaux Bridge |
| La Grande
Pointe |
Cecilia |
| La Grosse Ile du Vermilion |
Marsh Island |
| Lafayette, City of
Independent City established in 1832. Not the same as
the current City of Lafayette [see Vermilionville below] |
Annexed by the City of New
Orleans in 1852 & became the Fourth District |
| Lake Flamand &
Lac Tasse [also shown as Le Lac] Note: Flamand was
a dit name for Grevemberg |
Spanish Lake
[outside New Iberia heading toward Cade on La. 182] |
| Lavaudais Plantation |
Garden District
Famous for its 19th century homes and gardens, this area
was originally part of the Livaudais Plantation. Became part of City of
Lafayette, 1833. Annexed by City of New Orleans, 1852. Designated
National Historic Landmark, 1974. |
| Le Poste de
Pointe Coupée |
New Roads |
| Le Petit Paris |
St.
Martinville |
| Lieu dit
Chetimachas [also Indian Creek] |
Charenton
[Note: Charenton was also
the original site for New Iberia. The site was moved when the spring rains
flooded the area] |
| Los Adaes
This Spanish mission, fort
(presidio) and village was established in 1717 as the mission San Miguel
de los Adaes. It was the only Spanish mission established in
Louisiana, and was destroyed by the French in 1721. The Spaniards
rebuilt the mission, protecting it with a fortified presidio next to the
old site. A small village grew up beside it, and Los Adaes became
the capital of the Texas frontier until 1773. |
Just off SH 6, two
miles northeast of Robeline. Only rubble remains, but the site is a state
historic park. See map of
El Camino Real which ran over 1600 miles from Los Adaes to Mexico
City |
| Lydia Plantation & Olivier
Plantation Store
The modern community of Lydia is named for the old Lydia
Plantation, which was begun about the turn of the century by Hypolite
Patout and named for a daughter who died young. The original settlement
centered around what is now the
Olivier Plantation Store on the Weeks
Island Road (Hwy. 83). Note: The Olivier Plantation Store is listed on
the National Register of Historic Places.
In 1898, Jules Olivier went into partnership with Willie Patout to open
the store, originally serving primarily as a plantation commissary.
Olivier bought Patout out of the store in 1902. There was a race track
across the road from the store.
The Franklin and Abbeville Railroad ran nearby, and a narrow gauge tram
was used to haul sugar cane from Lydia Plantation to Patoutville.
Early family names in the area included Boutte, Broussard, Winters,
Romero, Landry, Duplantis, Bonin, Labiche, Hebert, Dorsey, Boudreaux,
Lancon, Charpentier, and others.
The current community of Lydia developed primarily in the 1970s, when
the Diamond Crystal Salt Co. abandoned the company town there and gave
workers the opportunity to buy their company-owned houses and move them. |
Lydia Note: St. Nicholas Catholic Church was founded in Patoutville in 1868
and moved to Lydia in the 1960's. |
|
Massacre Island [Isle Massacre] |
Dauphin Island, Alabama |
| Malbrough Settlement |
Shriever, LA |
| Mission of St.
Francis Xavier First White
Settlement in current-day Missouri - established by the Jesuits in 1700
[had been a gathering/trading point for Indians since 1682]. It was
abandoned in 1703 because of the unhealthy swamps nearby. |
Near
current-day St. Louis, Missouri
Note: St. Louis, MO was settled in 1764
|
| New Orleans First sited as Indian portage
to Lake Pontchartrain and Gulf in 1699 by Bienville and Iberville.
Founded by Bienville in 1718; named by him in honor of the Duke of
Orleans, Regent of France. Called the Crescent City because of location
in bend of the Mississippi |
New Orleans |
| New Richmond
Name given to Baton Rouge when the territory
East of the Mississippi River [except for New Orleans] was given to the
British in 1763. The area was captured in 1779 by General Galvez. |
Baton Rouge |
|
Nueva Iberia [named by the Spanish
Settlers from Malaga (and a few from the Canary Islands) for the Iberian
penisula] [also called petite fausse pointe]
Note: The original
settlement reached on Feb. 11, 1779 was at current-day Charenton, LA. Flooding
caused by the Spring rains forced the relocation to the current site.
Land was bought from Joseph Prevost dit Collet and the settlers were in
temporary housing by April 21, 1779. |
New Iberia |
|
Okwa-ta
Traveled on by Iberville, 1699 and named for the French
minister of Marine. Indians called it Okwa-ta, wide water. First port of
embarkation was at the site where bayou St. John flows from this lake.
It was the first water route to the city of New Orleans. |
Lake Pontchartrain |
| Old Biloxi:
Fort Maurepas
[First French Settlement in Colonial Louisiana: 1699-1702] Note: The
French returned briefly to Old Biloxi before selecting New Orleans as
the Capitol. |
Ocean Springs,
MS |
| Old Mobile - see
Twenty-27 Mile Bluff below |
N/A |
| Old Portage, The
Short trail from Lake Pontchartrain to river shown by
Indians to Iberville and Bienville, 1699. Winding trail used by early
travelers to city. From Bayou St. John it lead to N. Broad, Bayou Road,
Vieux CarrÈ to Mississippi River at site between Dumaine and Gov.
Nicholls Streets. |
n/a |
| Opelousas Post |
Current parishes of St. Landry,
Evangeline, Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis
and portions of Vernon, Lafayette & Vermilion |
| Orange Island
[also Butte a Peigneur; Côte Carlin; Pine & Miller's Island] |
Jefferson
Island |
| Paincourt |
St. Louis,
Missouri |
| Pass Manchac
South boundary of Tangipahoa Parish. Part of line
dividing Isle of Orleans from Florida Parishes. Boundary between British
West Florida and Spanish Louisiana, 1763-1783; Spanish West Florida and
French Louisiana., 1803; U.S. and Spanish West Florida, 1803-1810. |
n/a |
| Patoutville
Simeon Patout Sr., a native of Ussy, France, arrived in
Louisiana in 1825. With his wife Appoline Fournier he started Enterprise
Plantation which has remained in family hands every since. Simeon came
from a family of grape growers and had hoped to establish a winery at
Enterprise. Conditions were not correct and the attempt was
unsuccessful. Simeon was born 18 Feb 1791 in Ussy and died in 1847. His
wife ran the plantation until their son Hippolyte took over the
plantation operation. The family continues to run Enterprise Plantation,
Patoutville, Louisiana. It is a National Landmark and the oldest
continually operating family owned sugar plantation in the United States |
Patouville
Note: St. Nicholas Catholic Church was founded in Patoutville in 1868
and moved to Lydia in the 1960's. |
| Picouville |
Loreauville
On April 15, 1871, the name was changed from
Picouville to Loreauville for Ozaire Loreau, who had contributed the
property for the old Catholic Church and cemetery, and had also aided in
the agricultural, industrial and political growth of the village. |
| Plaquemine
Brule |
Church Point |
| Port Barre
In 1765 Charles Barre bought 8800 arpents from Jacque
Guillaume Courtableau, 1st Commandant, Opelousas Post. Here Bayou
Courtableau gives birth to Bayou Teche |
Port Barre |
| Poste du
Ouachita |
Monroe, LA |
| Pouppeville &
Queue de Tortue [Line of turtles]
Named for the merchant Jules Pouppeville and
dating back to the 1850s. Pouppeville was once a stagecoach stop. The
town was disassembled, carried north by oxen one mile to meet the
railroad, & rebuilt at Rayne Station in 1881 |
Rayne |
| Prairie
Bellevue |
Between
present-day Sunset and Opelousas |
| Prairie des
Coteaux [Prairie of the Hills] |
East of
present Opelousas corporate limits |
| Prairie Gros
Chevreuil [Prairie of Big Deer] |
Pecaniere |
| Prairie des Femmes |
between present-day
Grand Coteau and Arnaudville |
| Red Pole State
Capital. Named by Iberville 1699 from Indian name Iti Humma, Red Pole.
Village settled 1721. British, 1763 - 1779; Spanish 1779-1810. Republic
of West Florida, 1810 |
Baton Rouge |
| River of the
Chitimachas |
Bayou
Lafourche |
| Royville |
Youngsville |
| Scivicque’s Ferry
Originally a Spanish settlement and
early port on Amite River route from Mississippi River via Bayou Manchac.
First called Scivicque’s Ferry for Vincent Scivicque, native of Italy.
Site of parish courthouse 1872-1881 |
Port Vincent |
| St. Ferdinand |
Florissant,
Missouri |
| Ste. Genevieve
Located on the Mississippi River about 65 miles downstream from St.
Louis. It was the easiest access to the Mississippi River from the lead
mines. Philip Francois Renault, the director-general of the mining
operation who was a wealthy Paris banker, arrived in 1723. Among the
many famous persons of Ste. Genevieve are Moses Austin and his son,
Stephen. Also John James Audubon who was born in Louisiana in 1780. He
went to Ste. Genevieve as a businessman and left as a birdwatcher!
|
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri |
| St. Louis River |
Archaic expression used for the
Mississippi River |
| St. Pierre |
Carencro |
| St. Reyne Concession
Site of early Houmas & Tunica Indian villages. French St.
Reyne Concession, 1717; later abandoned. British & Spanish Colonial
Eras, 1763-1810; Independent state of West Florida; annexed by United
States 1810 |
St. Francisville |
| San Fernando de las Barrancas
[St. Ferdinand on the Bluffs] Est. in 1795 in the
territory of the Chickasaw Indians across from El Diamante Island and
near the Carondelet and Las Casas Rivers. |
Memphis, TN |
| Storyville
Created 1897 and closed 1917, New Orleans’ famous
legalized redlight district was in this area. Among the many great jazz
musicians on the scene here were King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis
Armstrong, Tony Jackson and Jimmie Noone. |
n/a |
|
Techi-ti-matchas |
Chetimacha |
| Thirty-First Parallel
Line established by Pinckney Treaty, Oct. 27, 1795,
dividing southern United States and Spanish West Florida. Recognized
U.S. claim dating back to American Revolution, 1783. |
North boundary of Tangipahoa
Parish |
| Tigerville |
Gibson [named in 1888 for senior
Louisiana Senator] |
| Twenty-seven mile bluff on the
Mobile River |
Fort St. Louis de la Louisiane - Old Mobile,
the capital of French Louisiana from 1702 - 1711. In 1711, the
capital was relocated to the head of Mobile Bay, the site of the
present-day Mobile.
From 1699 to 1702, the French capital was first at Fort La Boulaye on the
lower Mississippi River and then at Fort Maurepas on Biloxi Bay. In
1718, New Orleans was established. In 1720, the French Capital was moved
from Mobile to Biloxi and in 1722, it was moved from Biloxi to New
Orleans. |
| Vacherie
[cattle ranch] |
Regional area
of St. James Parish - see description of book Vacherie on
Books Page |
| Valenzuela
[Spanish Settlement]
Valenzuela dans la Fourche was located
on the banks of Bayou Lafourche 80 miles west of New Orleans.
Founded under Spanish rule c. 1778 by Canary Islanders,
later joined by Acadians and others. Post believed to have been on site
of Belle Alliance Plantation, 841 acre grant to Don Juan Vives, early
Spanish physician, officer in the Galvez Expedition. |
near town of
Plattenville and present-day Belle Alliance Plantation |
| Venice
Near this site on April 9, 1682, LaSalle claimed
Louisiana for France. Father Zenobius Membre, a member of the
expedition, sang the Te Deum. On March 3, 1699, Father Anastase Douay, a
member of Iberville’s expedition, celebrated the first mass of record in
French Louisiana |
Venice |
| Vermilionville
[also Grand Prairie] |
Lafayette |
| Vidalia, LA - see Concordia above |
Vidalia |
| Wharton
John Wharton Collins donated land and founded Wharton in
1813. Town was named for his grandfather, John Wharton. Legislature
granted charter March 11, 1816, and changed name to Covington, in honor
of General Leonard A. Covington, war hero of 1812. |
Covington |