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Jean Lafitte is a town on Bayou Barataria in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located in Jefferson Parish , it is named after the privateer Jean Lafitte . The population was 1,809 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ]
Battle of New Orleans. Jean Lafitte (c.1780 – c.1823) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte". This has become the common spelling in the United States, including ...
May 26, 1977. Chretien Point Plantation is a pre- Civil War twelve room red brick mansion, located on twenty acres on the banks of Bayou Bourbeaux, two miles southwest of Sunset, Louisiana in St. Landry Parish. A Civil War battle was fought on the plantation grounds and Jean Lafitte was a tenant. The mansion was listed on the National Register ...
Now his daughter, Anne Harmon Brett, and fellow author Claire Manes are jointly holding an exhibit at Thibodaux's Jean Lafitte Museum until Aug. 27. The exhibit, which includes about 20 items ...
State flag of Louisiana Location of Louisiana in the U.S. map The following are notable people who were either born, raised, or have lived for a significant period of time in the American state of Louisiana. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. A Mark Abraham (born 1953), state ...
87000849 [ 1 ] Added to NRHP. May 29, 1987. The Acadia Plantation was a historic plantation house in Thibodaux, Louisiana, U.S.. It was the plantation of James Bowie, Rezin P. Bowie, and Stephen Bowie. James "Jim" Bowie, served in the Battle of the Alamo. [ 2 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1987. [ 3 ]
Chalmette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located within Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Chalmette, Louisiana.The cemetery is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) graveyard adjacent to the site that was once the battleground of the Battle of New Orleans, which took place at the end of the War of 1812. [2]
In Jefferson Parish, Manila Plaza, located in front of Jean Lafitte Town Hall, holds several historical markers and commemorative plaques acknowledging important figures in the area's Filipino American history. While there were several settlements scattered along the Louisiana coast in the late 19th century, Manila Village was the largest. [6]