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St. Martinville (French: Saint-Martin) [2] is a city in and the parish seat of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. [3] It lies on Bayou Teche, 13 miles (21 km) south of Breaux Bridge, [4] 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Lafayette, [5] and 9 miles (14 km) north of New Iberia. [6]
St. Charles Parish (French: Paroisse de Saint-Charles) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.At the 2020 census, its population was 52,549. [1] The parish seat is Hahnville and the most populous community is Luling.
St. Tammany was originally inhabited by numerous Indian peoples, including the Colapissas, Bayou Goulas, Chickasaw, Biloxi, Choctaw and Pensacola nations (although Frederick S. Ellis, in his book St. Tammany Parish: L'autre Côté du Lac, claims that the regionally prominent Choctaw tribe did not arrive in the area until after it had begun to be settled by Europeans).
St. John the Baptist Parish (SJBP, French: Paroisse de Saint-Jean-Baptiste) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.At the 2020 census, the population was 42,477. [1]
St. Mary Parish (French: Paroisse de Sainte-Marie) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.As of the 2020 census, the population was 49,406. [1] The parish seat is Franklin. [2]
St. George is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana's East Baton Rouge Parish.It has a population of 86,316 and is the fifth most-populous city in Louisiana. St. George is the newest incorporated city in Louisiana and was approved in a ballot initiative on October 12, 2019. [1]
In 1740, the ecclesiastical parish and chapel relocated to the present-day site of the church on the eastbank of the Mississippi River. A log cabin structure was built and both the ecclesiastical parish and chapel were renamed St. Charles in honor of St. Charles Borromeo.
The first white settler to trek through the wilderness in this area was Thomas Berwick. [3] He settled along the banks of the Atchafalaya River in the late 18th century. . Today the town of Berwick is home to several seafood processing plants and numerous boat comp