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Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site in Natchitoches, Louisiana, US, is a replica of an early French fort based upon the original 1716 blueprints by Sieur Du Tisné with the improvements made in 1731 by Boutin. The French called the original fort: Fort Saint Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches.
Brevelle arrived in French Louisiana during the construction of Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in 1719. Commandant Claude Charles du Tisné had arrived to the outpost just a few years earlier to convert the 2 huts built in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis into a fortified post on Red River of the South to establish France's claims to the region and to prevent the Spanish forces in ...
The baptism of Jean Baptiste Brevelle II. is recorded on May 20, 1736 in the oldest Catholic Registry in the Louisiana colony. Jean Baptiste Brevelle II was granted Isle Brevelle and the land surrounding Bayou Brevelle by David Pain, the subdelegate at Natchitoches in 1765 for his service to the French and Spanish crowns as a Caddo Indian ...
Brevelle was born in 1730 at a Caddo village on the frontier lands of French Louisiana near Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches. His father, Jean Baptiste Brevelle, was a Parisian-born trader and soldier stationed at the fort. His mother, Anne des Cadeaux, was a Native American slave. Brevelle spent the first several years living in Native ...
St. Denis arrived in central Louisiana at what is now Natchitoches later in 1713 and built Fort St. Jean Baptiste de Natchitoches as a trading post along the banks of the Red River, whose course later changed and the result became the Cane River. He traded with the Caddo Nation there and freely sold them guns; additionally, St. Denis developed ...
Anne later became the slave of Jean Baptiste Brevelle (French: Brevel), a Parisian-born trader, explorer, and one of the first soldiers garrisoned at Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches. [citation needed] Jean so loved Anne that he obtained permission from Fort Commandant Louis Antoine Juchereau de St. Denis to marry her. After the ...
Fort Pike State Historic Site: Orleans Parish: 22 acres (9 ha) Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site: Natchitoches Parish: 5 acres (2 ha) Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site: Rapides Parish: 103 acres (42 ha) Locust Grove State Historic Site: West Feliciana Parish: 1 acre (.4 ha) Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site: St ...
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Natchitoches, Louisiana" ... Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site; G. Guy House (Natchitoches, Louisiana) H.