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Pointe Coupee Parish (/ ˈ p ɔɪ n t k ə ˈ p iː / or / ˈ p w ɑː n t k uː ˈ p eɪ /; French: Paroisse de la Pointe-Coupée) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,758. [2] The parish seat is New Roads. [3] Pointe Coupee Parish is part of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana Metropolitan ...
Point Coupee is the name of an unincorporated community located in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is the home of St. Francis Chapel and is located along Louisiana Highway 420 , north of New Roads , the parish seat.
The USGS topographic map of Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1994. The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm" [8]) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections.
New Roads (historically French: Poste-de-Pointe-Coupée [3]) is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. [4] The center of population of Louisiana was located in New Roads in 2000. [5] The population was 4,831 at the 2010 census, down from 4,966 in 2000. In the 2020 census the population was 4,549, while ...
Pointe Coupee Parish: 077: New Roads: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. French phrase la pointe coupée or in English, the cut-off point, which refers to a bend in the Mississippi River: 20,000: 591 sq mi (1,531 km 2) Rapides Parish: 079: Alexandria: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Named for local river rapids (French: rapides ...
Among his co-authored works are Furnishing Louisiana: Creole and Acadian Furniture, 1735-1835, published by The Historic New Orleans Collection, [3] [4] and New Roads and Old Rivers: Louisiana's Historic Pointe Coupee Parish, published by LSU Press. [5] He was editor of The Pointe Coupee Banner newspaper in New Roads, Louisiana during 1988-1996.
The Iberia Parish Coroner said because his cause of death was ruled natural, more information is not a public record. Lumpkin's family told KATC he had heart and lung diseases, and that it took the jail hours to provide him with medical help. The sheriff disputed this account, saying the family is "full of it." Jail or Agency: Iberia Parish Jail
The largest battle in Pointe Coupee Parish was fought at nearby Stirling Plantation, on September 29, 1863. Sixteen Federal troops were killed, 45 were wounded, and 462 were taken prisoner. The Confederate losses included 26 dead, 85 wounded, and 10 missing. Although the Battle of Sterling Plantation was a Confederate victory, the Union troops ...