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La Louvière quickly surpassed its overlord Saint-Vaast, both in population and economic wealth. Within fifty years, the territory that was not much more than a place name had become one of the most important cities in Wallonia. La Louvière was recognized as an independent city in 1869.
There's at least a half dozen Fayettevilles in the U.S. as well as Lafayette, Louisiana all named after the Marquis de la Fayette who didn't rise to prominence until some time after Britain conquered France's colonies in North America.
It is only in 1682 that the French took possession of what would become the huge Louisiana territory, over which their influence lasted for more than a century. The 1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty between France and the United States ended for ever Colonial French Louisiana.
- French Names For Louisiana Cities and Towns
- Louisiana Cities and Towns Named For People
- Cities and Towns in Louisiana Named For Other Places
- Indigenous Names For Louisiana Cities and Towns
- Louisiana Cities and Towns Named For Geographical Features
- Unique Backstories of Louisiana Towns and Cities
New Orleanswas founded in 1718 as Nouvelle-Orléans by the French explorer Bienville. He named the city in honor of another French official, then Prince Regent of France Philip II, Duke of Orleans. Louisiana’s capital city, Baton Rouge, means “red stick” in French. The red stick refers to a blood-stained pole that French explorer Iberville found on ...
Shreveport’sname is tied to a 160-mile log jam on the Red River in northwest and central Louisiana in the early 1800s. A steamboat captain and hundreds of men under his command successfully cleared the log jam opening river navigation southward to the Mississippi River. They established a port community north of the jam named for the jam-clearing c...
Located in Jefferson Davis Parish, Roanoke(as in American history’s “the lost colony of”) is said to have also been named by settlers who migrated from Virginia. Similarly, eastern Calcasieu Parish settlers named Iowaafter the northern Midwest state from which they migrated. Oddly enough, Louisiana’s Iowa has a long “a” (pronounced eye-way). Zwolle...
Several Louisiana cities owe their names to Louisiana’s first American Indian residents including Bayou Goula, Houma, Natchitoches, Opelousas, Coushatta, Jena and Ponchatoula. Bogalusais named for Washington Parish’s Bogue Lusa creek, which is Choctaw for “dark” or “smoky water.” Another town with a named tied to the Choctaw is Shongaloo, which is ...
Louisiana has places named for nearby natural resources, such as Louisiana’s Lake Charles, Lake Providence and Lake Arthur. Louisiana even has one central Louisiana 1800s sawmill town named for a defective natural resource. It’s said that a water wheel was built to power the mill, but the creek on which it sat would stop flowing and become a dry pr...
A then-new railroad depot in Avoyelles Parish was named Bunkieby a prominent landowner in the late 1800s. It is said the wealthy man’s young daughter had a pet monkey but her unpolished vocabulary skills resulted in her calling the pet “bunkie” instead of “monkey,” much to the amusement of the family. When the rail company asked the landowner to na...
Aug 11, 2022 · The Louisiana Purchase was the extraordinary acquisition the United States made of roughly 530,000,000 acres of land from the French First Republic in 1803. The United States paid $15 million to take control of New Orleans and the land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
Aug 22, 2018 · The Louisiana Purchase effectively doubled the size of the United States. What would become Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska and parts of present-day New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado would all eventually emerge from the new territory.
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The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
