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The Thibodaux Massacre was an episode of racial violence that occurred in Thibodaux, Louisiana on November 23, 1887. It followed a three-week strike during the critical harvest season in which an estimated 10,000 workers protested against the living and working conditions which existed on sugar cane plantations in four parishes: Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, and Assumption.
Napoleonville, is a village and the parish seat of Assumption Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [2] The population was 660 at the 2010 census. [3] It is part of the Pierre Part Micropolitan Statistical Area. The village is best known as the location where the film Because of Winn-Dixie, based on Kate DiCamillo 's Newbery Prize-winning ...
Known as the Chalmette Monument, the one-hundred-foot-tall obelisk was completed in 1908. Closed for repairs after parts of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it was reopened to the public during a rededication ceremony on National Public Lands Day on September 28, 2013 ...
985. FIPS code. 22-60075. Pierre Part (French: Ville de Pierre Part) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,169 at the 2010 census, making it the most populous community in Assumption Parish. [3] With 39.3 percent of the population speaking French at home, Pierre Part is the most ...
Thibodaux (/ ˈtɪbədoʊ / TIB-ə-doh) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, [3] along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. [4] Thibodaux is a principal city of the Houma – Bayou Cane –Thibodaux metropolitan statistical ...
December 1, 2006. Ronald Joseph Dominique (born January 9, 1964), known as The Bayou Strangler, is an American serial killer and rapist who murdered at least 23 men and boys in the state of Louisiana between 1997 and 2006. On September 23, 2008, Dominique was found guilty and sentenced to several terms of life imprisonment without parole for ...
Thibodaux: Lafourche: Demolished 2010 83000554 Afton Villa Gardens: February 24, 1983: St. Francisville: West Feliciana: House destroyed by fire in 1963. Gardens and ruins open daily, March 1 to June 30 & October 1 to December 1. 91001046 Aillet House: August 9, 1991: Port Allen: West Baton Rouge: Built in 1830; French-Creole Architecture 01000007
ZIP code. 70372. Area code. 985. FIPS code. 22-40420. Labadieville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,854 at the 2010 census. [2] It is part of the Pierre Part Micropolitan Statistical Area.