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The parish is noted for its brand of Cajun/Creole style music and its gumbo, a popular soup with roots in the three major ethnicities noted above. The central part of Avoyelles Parish is sited on a large plateau, slightly above the floodplain of the waterways. Travel by water was long the primary way to move around this area.
The refuge is located in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, east central Louisiana. The refuge is named for its most prominent water body, the 350-acre (1.4 km 2) Lake Ophelia that was at one time a channel of the nearby Red River of the South.
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Belleville is an unincorporated community in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The area is home to descendants of early French settlers, Native Americans, and Creoles. The community is part of Parish Governing Authority District 2. [1]
Simmesport is located in eastern Avoyelles Parish on the west bank of the Atchafalaya River. [6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.1 km 2), of which 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2) is land and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km 2), or 7.93%, is water. [4]
The area is served by the St. Genevieve Catholic Church of Brouillette, a historic Catholic Church founded in the 1800s.The current structure was built in the 1950s. Notable founding and patron families include Deville, Brevelle, Gaspard, Dupuy, Ponthier, Lacombe, Bordelon, Laborde, and Lachney, whose names appear prominently on the church's entrance, walls, and fe
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