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 | | On New Yearâs Day, 1722, the first mass at the settlement was celebrated in Dartaguetteâs parlor by Father Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix, a Jesuit teacher and missionary who was on his way to New Orleans, having traveled from Quebec by way of the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi. |
 | | By 1727, however, the Dartaguette settlement had vanished; the reason for its disappearance is not known, though it probably was a combination of crop failure and the concurrent success of the settlement at Pointe Coupee, across the river and a few miles north. |
 | | That day, Mayor-President Kip Holden was expected to host a conference to discuss how to effectively enroll evacuated children into the Baton Rouge public school system. |
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