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Unincorporated areas of interest in the parish include Achee, Adeline, Albania, Amelia, Avalon, Bayou Sale, Cabot, Caffery, Calumet, Caneland, Centerville, Charenton, Cypremont, Ellerslie, Fairville, Florence, Giles, Glencoe, Glenwild, Gordy, Idlewild, Ivanhoe, Katy, Lagonda, Louisa, North Bend, Oaklawn, Oxford, Richard, Sorrel, Sterling, United, Verdonville and Wyandotte |
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Attakapas Island Wildlife Management Area |
Atchafalaya Bay East Cote Blanche Bay Flat Lake Grand Lake Gulf of Mexico ICWW Lake Fausse Point Lake Palourde Six Mile Lake West Cote Blanche Bay |
Attakapa Militia Battle of Bisland Battle of Franklin Charles Austin O’Neill Chitimacha Indians Donelson Caffery Dr. Walter Brashear Enterprise Plantation Fort Brashear Franklin Jared Young Sanders (1869 - 1944) Morgan City Murphy James Foster (1849-1921) Sorrel Williams Memorial Airport |
History | |
| 1805 |
When the Territory of Orleans is divided into counties the present-day St. Mary Parish is part of Attakapas County |
| 1811 April 17 |
A territorial act divides the county of Attakapas into two parishes: The parish of St. Martin and the parish of St. Mary - The parish of St. Martin shall contain all that part of the country north, or above a line running east from the upper line of the plantation of Francisco Boutte, on the Bayou Teche, to the great lake, and west from the said Francisco Boutte to the mouth of the petite Anse on the Bay; and the parish of St. Mary shall contain all the remainder of the county, that is to say, all that is south or below the said line. |
| 1825 |
Enterprise Plantation, in St. Mary Parish is established by Pierre Simeon Patout in 1825. Originally intended as a vineyard, the plantation was converted to sugar cane. It is the oldest complete working sugar cane plantation in the United States. |
| 1849 January 12 |
Murphy James Foster is born near Franklin. This prominent St. Mary Parish plantation owner and lawyer of the reconstruction period will serve the people of Louisiana as: Louisiana State Senator (1880-1892) Thirty-first Governor (1892-1900) United States Senator (1900-1912). |
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Education |
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Director - Cheryl Cooper 206 Iberia St. Franklin, LA 70538-4906 Email - 5 Branches - Amelia, Bayou Vista, Berwick, Patterson, West End, 1 Bookmobile 220 Everett St. P. O. Box 988 Morgan City, LA 70380-0988 Email -blmc@pelican.state.lib.la.us American Library Directory 1999-2000, R. R. Bowker |
