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Albania Plantation is a plantation house located on the Bayou Teche in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana right outside of the town of Jeanerette, Louisiana.The home was built between 1837 and 1842 by Charles Alexandre Grevemberg, who operated a successful sugar plantation based on slave labor on the surrounding 6,500 acres (2,600 ha).
Edwin Epps House is a Creole cottage built in 1852 (173 years ago) () in part by Solomon Northup [1] on Bayou Boeuf near Holmesville in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. [2] It was built for Edwin Epps, a slaveholder. [1] The house was a "double-sided, wood frame house with one chimney, and a tin roof" of mid-sized farmers. [3]
The 2000 census reported a resident population of 409 persons living on the Chitimacha Indian Reservation. Of these, 285 identified as solely of Native American ancestry. The reservation is located at 29°53′02″N 91°31′52″W / 29.88389°N 91.53111°W / 29.88389; -91.53111 in the northern part of the community of Charenton ...
The Vermilion River (or the Bayou Vermilion, French: Rivière Vermilion) is a 70.0-mile-long (112.7 km) [2] bayou in southern Louisiana in the United States.It is formed on the common boundary of Lafayette and St. Martin parishes by a confluence of small bayous flowing from St. Landry Parish, and flows generally southward through Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, past the cities of Lafayette ...
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There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos.
Today, a modern bridge carries LA 115 across the bayou at this historic site roughly two miles west of Bunkie, Louisiana. Ray's Ferry appears on General Land Survey maps of the era, notably: Map of Louisiana, Constructed from the Surveys in the General Land Office, and other documents by John Melish.
Bettina Strauss/Hallmark Media The Brenner boys are officially coming back in town — and ready to wreak more havoc — in Hallmark Channel’s upcoming Three Wise Men and a Baby sequel.