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Henry Newton Brown Jr., judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1992-2012) and district attorney of Bossier and Webster parishes (1976-1991), was born in Bienville Parish in 1941. Dee Brown , author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee , born in Alberta.
The New Orleans–Metairie–Slidell combined statistical area is made up of nine parishes in southeastern Louisiana and one county in Mississippi.The statistical area consists of the New Orleans metropolitan statistical area (MSA), Slidell–Mandeville–Covington, LA MSA, Picayune micropolitan statistical area (μSA), and the Bogalusa μSA.
Until 1762, the land that would eventually become Beauregard Parish was a part of the Spanish holdings in Louisiana, as, at that time, the border between Spain and France was acknowledged as the Rio Hondo (now known as the Calcasieu river); however the land between the Rio Hondo and the Sabine river was in some dispute as the French were beginning to occupy land on the west side of the Rio Hondo.
Shreveport city, Louisiana – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [68] Pop 2010 [69] Pop 2020 [70] % 2000 ...
Benton is a town in, and the parish seat of, Bossier Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 2,048 in 2020. [ 2 ] The town is named for 19th century U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton , a Democrat from Missouri and an ally of U.S. President Andrew Jackson .
The parish was created out of lands formerly belonging to St. Landry Parish in 1910. [3] 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.
Some students in the parish attend Wilkinson County Christian Academy in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. [22] The West Feliciana Parish Library is located in St. Francisville. [23] The library, previously a part of the Audubon Regional Library System, became independent in January 2004. [24]
Merryville is located at (30.753916, -93.536991 U.S. Route 190 passes through the community, leading north and east 19 miles (31 km) to DeRidder, the parish seat, and west 18 miles (29 km) to Newton, Texas.