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St. John the Baptist Parish (SJBP, French: Paroisse de Saint-Jean-Baptiste) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 42,477. [1] The parish seat is Edgard, [2] an unincorporated area, and the largest city is LaPlace, which is also unincorporated. St. John the Baptist Parish was established in ...
The old parish church traces its origin to the year 1902, when a group of Jesuit priests arrived in Shreveport to establish and staff a new parish and high school for boys. [4] The parish's first rector was Fr. John F. O'Connor, S.J. By 1924, building a larger church was deemed necessary for the growing congregation. [5]
There are 18 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the parish, including 2 National Historic Landmarks. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 23, 2024.[2] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
May 30, 1974 [2] San Francisco Plantation House is a historic plantation house in Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Built in 1853–1856, it is one of the most architecturally distinctive plantation houses in the American South. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974. [2][3] It is now a museum and event facility.
70068. Area code. 985. FIPS code. 22-42030. Website. Official website. LaPlace (/ ləˈplɑːs / lə-PLAHSS) is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States, situated along the east bank of the Mississippi River, in the New Orleans metropolitan area. In 2020, it had a population of 28,841.
Franklin Parish 48, Caldwell Parish 0. Hamilton Christian 48, St. John 40. Jewel Sumner 45, Livonia 0. Kenner Discovery 32, Patrick Taylor 24 ... De La Salle 10, St. Charles Catholic 0. Denham ...
September 25, 1991 [1] Designated NHL. April 27, 1992 [2] Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, near Wallace, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18. The main house was constructed mostly in 1790, and renovated to its current Greek Revival style in 1832.
The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist or La Cathédrale St-Jean, originally called l'Église St-Jean du Vermilion, is the cathedral and mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana. It was the first parish in Lafayette Parish —founded in 1821—and was designated cathedral upon the erection of the diocese in 1918 ...