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	History of Calcasieu Parish
		Calcasieu Parish was created March 24, 1840, from the Parish of Saint Landry, one of the original nineteen civil parishes established by the Legislature in 1807.
		This parish seat was incorporated as a town in 1857 as Charleston and was reincorporated in 1868 as Lake Charles.
		In 1912, the three parishes of Allen, Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis, with a total area of approximately 2,548 square miles, were cut off from the Parish of Calcasieu.
	www.cppj.net /history.asp (1773 words)

	Parish seat -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Therefore, a parish seat is a city which is the capital of a parish.
		It is generally equivalent to the (The town or city that is the seat of government for a county) county seat in other U.S. States.
		The parish (A building that houses judicial courts) courthouse and parish administration are usually located in the parish seat.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/parish_seat.htm (104 words)

	Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The parish seat and urban center is Lake Charles and as of 2000, the population is 183,577.
		In the parish the population is spread out with 27.40% under the age of 18, 10.30% from 18 to 24, 28.70% from 25 to 44, 21.80% from 45 to 64, and 11.90% who are 65 years of age or older.
		This parish seat was incorporated as a town in 1857 as Charleston and was reincorporated in 1868 as Lake Charles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calcasieu_Parish,_Louisiana (1772 words)

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		The warding of Kempston Rural parish reflects in the boundaries for the Borough wards of Turvey and Kempston South.
		Stewartby Parish Council have argued that the 51 elector's resident in the Kempston Hardwick ward of Kempston Rural parish should be transferred to Stewartby Parish to.
		Proposed Wyboston Parish – In the event that this is implemented, it is proposed that a Parish Council be established comprised of 5 Parish Councillors.
	www.bedfordshire.gov.uk /BedsCC/commgp.nsf/web/ThePage/rep03020405 (5594 words)

	EVANGELINE PARISH HISTORY
		The new parish was placed in the Seventh Congressional District, and in the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
		The location of the parish seat was left up to the voters of the parish.
		The new parish was given one representative in the State Legislature.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/2073/evparish.htm (790 words)

	Encyclopedia: Parish seat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A parish seat is the administrative center of a parish in the US state of Louisiana.
		Unlike the vast majority of states of the United States (all others except Alaska), and largely because of its rich cultural ties to France, Louisiana is divided into Parishes, as opposed to Counties.
		The parish courthouse and parish administration are usually located in the parish seat.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Parish-seat (151 words)

	Jefferson Parish : About Jefferson Parish
		Jefferson Parish, Louisiana was established in 1825 and was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, commemorating his role in purchasing the Louisiana territory from France in 1803.
		The present boundary was set in 1874, and in 1884 the seat of Parish government was transferred to the West Bank, Gretna, where it has remained.
		Once a largely rural area of farms, dairies and vast tracts of undeveloped land, Jefferson Parish today is New Orleans' first suburb - a bedroom community west of the city that received the first great migration of middle-class families from the 1950's to the 1970's.
	www.jeffparish.net /index.cfm?docid=1371 (1066 words)

	- - Saint James History !!!! - -
		The original seat of government was in St. James on the west bank of the river, but in 1869 it was changed to the east bank, near the "Convent of the Sacred Heart" and a new courthouse was erected.
		James Parish is bounded by Ascension Parish on the north, St. John the Baptist on the east, Assumption on the west and southwest, and Lafourche on the south.
		The land of the parish is chiefly alluvial withsome wooded lowlands and coast marshes, representing an area of 165,760 acres.
	www.stjamesparish.com /local/history/stjameshistory/stjameshistory.htm (1199 words)

	Iberia Parish Recovery Plan
		parish economy depends on agriculture, including the shrimp, rice, sugarcane and crawfish industries.
		The parish was named for an old term for the Spanish portion of the European peninsula.
		Significant economic interests are Public Administration (State, local government and schools), support services and materials for offshore mining of oil and gas, light manufacturing (including the Tabasco brand hot sauce), sugarcane, aquaculture (crawfish), fishing, retail and warehousing.
	www.louisianaspeaks-parishplans.org /indparishhomepage.cfm?EntID=7 (262 words)

	Lafourche.com: The Area
		Assumption Parish, which is named for the church parish founded in Plattenville in 1793, was carved out of Lafourche in 1807 and they were among the 19 original parishes when Louisiana became a state in 1812.
		Napoleonville is the parish seat for Assumption Parish.
		Presley K. Ewing, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court in 1905, was born in Lafourche Parish in 1860.
	lafourche.com /area.htm (1078 words)

	Acadia-Avoyelles
		In 1805 Ascension Parish was one of the original 12 counties that
		Two years later it was divided and one portion of Lafourche was established as the civil parish of Assumption.
		Parish is divided between Rapides County and Opelousas County.
	www.angelfire.com /d20/wkrp_oo/Acadia_Parish.html (580 words)

	North Webster Chamber of Commerce History Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Dorcheat Bayou, which bisects the parish from north to south, was the transportation artery that brought the first settlers to the area, and it remained the main connection to the outside world until the coming of the railroads in the years after the Civil War.
		The parish seat was located at Minden, the largest town in the parish, which is located in the south central part of the parish.
		The rolling hills that cover the eastern part of the parish were not conducive to the crop, although in the areas along the bayou the land did allow for some large cotton growers to prosper.
	www.springhilllouisiana.com /history.html (1131 words)

	History of OLM Parish
		Once the church in Hatch was completed, the seat of the parish was transferred there and the church in Rodey was closed.
		An agreement was reached whereby the parish rented the facility and after many hours of volunteer work and donated materials, the old chapel has been transformed into a catechetical center for the community of Salem.
		Much of the parish resources are being directed toward the children and youth of the parish so that the faith might be passed on to the next generation.
	www.zianet.com /mercy/history.htm (984 words)

	Lafayette Parish Louisiana - info, facts, communities on Key to the City
		Lafayette Parish is in south-central Louisiana and is (from the parish seat) 35 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, 50 miles from Baton Rouge and 129 miles west of New Orleans.
		Landry Parish to the north, Vermilion Parish on the south and Acadia Parish on the west.
		Lafayette Parish is one of the smallest parishes in Louisiana.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /lalafayetteparish.htm (533 words)

	Congressman Richard Baker - 6th District by DexteraNet
		Livingston Parish is one of the original Florida parishes, and was controlled by the Spanish until 1810.
		One of Americaâs most notable authors, Ernest J. Gaines, was born in the parish, and historians reveal that the influential explorer Fernando DeSoto died in the upper region of Pointe CoupÃ©e Parish.
		The parish is rich in historic buildings and charming southern culture, and the parish seat, St.
	www.baker.house.gov /html/district.cfm (2883 words)

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		Abbeville, the Vermilion Parish seat, is located on the Vermilion River at the junction of U.S. Hwy.
		Father Megret's new Abbeville was made the parish seat by an act of the Legislature approved March 3, 1854, that provided that "from and after the passage of this Act, the place called Abbeville in the said parish of Vermilion shall be the permanent seat of Justice." A courthouse was built there shortly thereafter.
		On April 17, the police jury held a meeting of the leading citizens of the parish, to put up a $500 reward for the identity of the arsonist, and to try to find a way to recreate parish records, all of which had been burned.
	www.lft.k12.la.us /chs/la_studies/ParishSeries/VermilionParish/LaChapelle.htm (1172 words)

	Warenburg Church
		LOCATION: Privalnoje parish, with its seat in the German colony of the same name, lies in Novosensk County, Samara Province, on the left bank (sic) of the Volga.
		In 1820 the last four colonies were combined into the parish of Volskoje (Kukkus), along with Sebastianovka on the Bergseite which had originally belonged to the colony of Privalnoja and the parish was renamed after the new pastorate.
		CHURCHES AND PRAYER HOUSES: The parish possesses three churches: in Privalnoje, built of stone with 1,200 seats; in Skatovka (6 versts from the parish seat with 900 seats) built of wood; and in Tarlykovka
	www.volgagermans.net /warenburg/Warenburg_Church.htm (797 words)

	Bossier Parish
		Bossier Parish was formed in 1843 from Claiborne Parish.
		Its parish seat, Benton, is on LA-3 about 15 miles north of Shreveport and 240 miles northwest of Baton Rouge.
		Bossier is bordered by the Louisiana parishes of Webster, Bienville, Red River and Caddo, as well as by Lafayette Co., AR.
	gen.culpepper.com /archives/la/bossier.htm (226 words)

	Terrebonne Parish: Southdown Plantation: Louisiana swamp tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Carved from the southern part of Lafourche Parish, Terrebone Parish was established on March 22, 1822, and named for Bayou Terrebone, French for "good land." The first settlers were the Houma Indians, for whom the parish seat is named.
		The Houma arrived in Terrebonne Parish during the late eighteenth century and were followed by Acadian immigrants in the 1760s.
		By 1851, sugarcane was being grown on 110 plantations in Terrebone Parish.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /03a_Cultural_Tourism_Files/02.1_Acadiana_Parishes/Terrebonne_Parish.html (300 words)

	Livingston Parish Clerk of Court
		The parish was created on February 10, 1832, when the state Legislature split St. Helena Parish in two.
		Livingston Parish consists of 642 square miles on 410,880 acres and is 32 miles long by 30 miles wide.
		The geographical landscape of the parish varies from rolling terrain covered by slash pine and hardwood forests in the northern part to rich cypress forests and marshes that border on Lake Maurepas and the Amite River in the southern end.
	www.livclerk.org /about_us.html (580 words)

	Quote 1A (subpage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Calcasieu is the most populated of the three parishes and contains the city of Lake Charles, the parish seat.
		Beauregard parish, with Deridder as its parish seat, is of a rural nature with an abundance of agriculture, soybeans, and rice.
		Vernon parish, the northern end of our market area with Leesville as the parish seat, is home to the Fort Polk army post, Fort Polk has been a well -known name to many an army recruit over the past fifty years.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/intac/quotes2.htm (179 words)

	Acadia Parish Library - Crowley Church Point Estherwood Evangeline Iota Mermentau Morse Rayne
		MIRE: The Acadia Parish School Board formally changed the name of the Elementary School from Mier (unknown variant of the Mire name) to Mire (the correct spelling of the Mire families in the area) in 1973.
		During the French regime Acadia Parish was a part of the district known as Poste des Opelousas, later known as St. Landry Parish, from which several southwest parishes were formed.
		The Acadia Parish Library strives to serve the residents of Acadia Parish.
	www.acadia.lib.la.us /newpage1.htm (935 words)

	Regional History
		The first settlement of what is now Acadia Parish was made by the exiled Acadians who were induced by the Spanish Government to come to this area with gifts of large tracts of land, cattle, and agricultural implements.
		Thus was born Acadia Parish on October 2, 1886.
		Since the turn of the century, farmers of Acadia Parish have realized a sizable income from such crops as cotton, eggs, soybeans, crawfish, sugar cane and frog farming.
	www.acadiatourism.org /history.htm (827 words)

	Home Page
		The Parish of Acadia was created in the year 1887 and the Clerk of Court has every record filed since the creation of the Parish.
		At the time of the election to form Acadia Parish, it appeared to be a foregone conclusion that Rayne would be the new parish seat.
		On October 3o, 1886, it said: "Rayne is eminently suitable for the parish seat, its accessibility, its establishment as a trade center are facts that cannot be controverted.
	www.acadiaparishclerk.com (1209 words)

	Claiborne Parish Information
		The first parish seat is the home of John Murrell, but is soon moved to the site of Russellville, near present-day Athens until 1836..
		The parish seat is moved to Athens where the Claiborne Academy building is used as the courthouse.
		The seat of parish government was then changed to Homer, located in the center of the parish.
	www.enlou.com /parishes/claiborne-parish.htm (536 words)

	Almanac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The parish takes its name from the Caddo Indians, who, in 1835, sold their territory (comprising all of Caddo Parish, parts of Arkansas and East Texas) to the United States for $80,000.
		Caddo Parish was one of the few areas that remained in the hands of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
		From 1863 to 1865 the new parish courthouse served as the wartime capitol.
	www.salsburg.com /Almanac.html (831 words)

	The Catholic Key: Online Edition Newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City - St.Joseph
		The new church, which could be completed by next spring, will be the sixth worship place for the parish since it was established in 1944.
		Jim Ruffini, project coordinator for the parish, said St. Sabina raised $1.7 million in pledges and has funds on deposit to lessen the burden of paying for the new church.
		Ruffini said the church will not only be constructed to seat 1,000 immediately, but will be expandable to seat another 500 in the future.
	catholickey.org /index.php3?gif=news.gif&mode=view&issue=20020616&article_id=1921 (848 words)

	Grant Parish: Louisiana: Colfax: Pollock: Dry Prong: Pecan Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Encompassing an area of 700 miles, Grant Parish was established in 1869 from the southern portion of Winn Parish and the northern portion of Rapides Parish.
		As a result of this incident, new laws were enacted to limit the power of the federal government in local affairs, thereby paving the way for white Democrats to return to "home rule" as they construed the term.
		Since the parish’s inception, the alluvial soil and pine hills of Grant have been home to a thriving economy based on agriculture and forestry.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /03a_Cultural_Tourism_Files/02.3_Central_Louisiana_Files/Grant_Parish.html (281 words)

	Louisiana101.com - Parish Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The history of the parish is older than the parish itself.
		The parish seat of Evangeline is Ville Platte.
		One of the 22 Acadiana parishes, Evangeline Parish is located in south-central Louisiana; its parish seat is Ville Platte.
	www.louisiana101.com /p_evangeline.html (249 words)

	Today's Parish Minister
		She would also be on hand for major liturgies in the parish, even if they happen at night or on the weekend.
		All catechetical and liturgical ministries of the parish would be oriented toward evangelization and catechesis.
		I would work with the parish council to devise a stewardship plan that includes all the charitable contributions to needs outside the parish.
	www.todaysparish.com (767 words)

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