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Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1643 to 1715.When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by the Mississippi River for France, he named it La Louisiane. [28]
Louisiana's flag during the American Civil War, in 1861. With its plantation economy, Louisiana was a state that generated wealth from the labor of and trade in enslaved Africans. It also had one of the largest free black populations in the United States, totaling 18,647 people in 1860.
Six of those are named in honor of European monarchs: the two Carolinas, the two Virginias, Georgia, and Louisiana. In addition, Maryland is named after Queen Henrietta Maria, queen consort of King Charles I of England, and New York after the then-Duke of York, who later became King James II of England.
Pioche, named after François Louis Alfred Pioche, a financier who purchased the town in 1869. Primeaux; Reno (named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War. Reno's family name was a modified version of the French surname "Renault")
Marrero, Louisiana, a census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (named after the Spanish American politician Louis H. Marrero) Martinez, Georgia, a census-designated place in Columbia County, Georgia; Martinez, Texas, an unincorporated community in eastern Bexar County, Texas
The Territory of Louisiana or Louisiana Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805, [1] until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed the Missouri Territory.
After the French form of the Atakapa name Katkōsh Yōk, meaning 'Crying Eagle', an Atakapa Native American leader 203,761: 1,094 sq mi (2,833 km 2) Caldwell Parish: 021: Columbia: 1838: from part of Catahoula Parish and Ouachita Parish. Named for the Caldwell family, which owned a large plantation and remains politically active in the state ...
Louisiana's development and growth was rapid after its admission as a member state of the American Union. By 1850, 1/3 of all Creoles of color owned over $100,000 worth of property. [ 35 ] Creoles of color were wealthy businessmen, entrepreneurs, clothiers, real estate developers, doctors, and other respected professions; they owned estates and ...