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Palmetto Island State Park is a recent addition to the Louisiana State Park system. The new state park is located south of Abbeville, Louisiana in Vermilion Parish.The state of Louisiana acquired the property for the park in 1981 but did not begin construction on it with the intent of public use until 2002.
Louisiana state parks have many accommodations, including overnight cabins, boating rentals, guided daily tours, and fishing piers. In 2002, Louisiana state parks had more than 2 million visitors. [2] With the addition of Palmetto Island State Park in 2010, Louisiana state parks comprise more than 30,000 acres (12,000 ha) of land.
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
Name Image Date designated Town, Parish Parish Notes; 87000849 Acadia Plantation: May 29, 1987: Thibodaux: Lafourche: Demolished 2010 83000554 Afton Villa Gardens: February 24, 1983: St. Francisville: West Feliciana: House destroyed by fire in 1963. Gardens and ruins open daily, March 1 to June 30 & October 1 to December 1. 91001046 Aillet ...
Palmetto is a village in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 188 at the 2000 census . It is part of the Opelousas – Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area .
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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 .
Also called the cabbage palmetto, sabal palm, inodes palmetto and the Carolina palmetto, the sabal palmetto was designated as the official state tree by Joint Resolution Number 63 on March 17, 1939.