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The name Tangipahoa is derived from the Muskogean words (tonche pahoha) which translates to "corncob people" or "people of the corn" or "corncob". It is from this Native American tribe that the modern Tangipahoa Parish gets its name, as well as the Tangipahoa River and the village of Tangipahoa.
Lake Pontchartrain borders the southeastern side of the parish. The name Tangipahoa comes from an Acolapissa word meaning "ear of corn " or "those who gather corn." The parish was organized in 1869 during the Reconstruction era.
Tangipahoa. Type: County with 121,000 residents. Description: parish in Louisiana, United States. Neighbors: Jefferson Parish. Categories: parish of Louisiana and locality. Location: Louisiana, South, United States, North America. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 30.6323° or 30° 37' 56" north.
Gen. map XXI. 1895. United States. War Department. 1:634k. La Terra, trattato popolare di geografia universale per G. Marinelli ed altri scienziati italiani, etc. [With illustrations and maps.] 1898. MARINELLI, Giovanni Professor of Geography at Padua. Neue Probleme der vergleichenden Erdkunde als Versuch einer Morphologie der Erdoberfläche ...
The name Tangipahoa means “ear of corn” or “those who gather corn,” which refers to a sub-tribe of the Acolapissa. These Native Americans inhabited the area when French brothers Pierre and Jean le Moyne, known as Sieurs Bienville and Iberville, arrived to colonize Louisiana.
Sep 25, 2019 · Joseph observed that the name Tangipahoa was derived from a Native American word that means either “eaters of corn” or “the people of the corn.” He said the parish’s unusual geography begins to...
The name Tangipahoa is derived from the Muskogean words (tonche pahoha) which translates to "corncob people" or "people of the corn" or "corncob". It is from this Native American tribe that the modern Tangipahoa Parish gets its name, as well as the Tangipahoa River.
