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This organized the state into seven judicial districts, each consisting of groups of parishes. In 1816, the first official map of the state used the term parish, as did the 1845 constitution. Since then, the official term for Louisiana's primary civil divisions has been parishes. The 19 original parishes were joined by Catahoula Parish in 1808.
Louisiana [b] or French Louisiana [c] was an administrative district of New France.In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana".
German Coast 1736, Detail from a larger map. Map of the German Coast, 1775 [1]. The German Coast (French: Côte des Allemands, Spanish: Costa Alemana, German: Deutsche Küste) was a region of early Louisiana settlement located above New Orleans, and on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
Modern French Louisiana. Greater New Orleans and the twenty-two parish cultural region known as Acadiana compose present-day 'French Louisiana'. [citation needed] Although the Louisiana French (Cajuns & Creoles) dominate south Louisiana's cultural landscape, the largest French-speaking group in the state is thought to be the United Houma Nation Native American tribe.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
Map of Orleans Territory in 1804; Attakapas Parish is in the south Attakapas Parish , a former parish ( county ) in southern Louisiana, was one of the twelve parishes in the Territory of Orleans , newly defined by the United States federal government following its Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
Colonial Louisiana — French Louisiana in New France (1682−1763, 1802−1804); and Spanish Louisiana in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (1763−1802). The French/Spanish colonial Louisiana territories covered much of the Mississippi River Basin , including the present day Great Plains and Midwestern United States , and the state of Louisiana .