Despite the important role of people of color, enslaved and free, very little was written about them, they were usually listed by first name only on early...
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Sponsored by the Hahnville chapters of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and its women’s auxiliary, the Household of Ruth, the Mother’s Day Parade in...
Hurricane Katrina had a profound effect on St. Charles Parish and the entire region. Life changed dramatically after the storm and did not return to “normal”...
Special Events This text is copyright © material by Marilyn Richoux, Joan Becnel and Suzanne Friloux, from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana: A Pictorial History...
It has been said by some that the St. Charles Parish area may not have been as profoundly affected by the Depression as the rest of the nation because many...
The United States entered World War I in April of 1917. In St. Charles Parish, lives were turned upside down. Men were called away to duty and families were...
The German Coast was well represented in the Battle of New Orleans. Colonel Alexandre LaBranche led the 568 men of the Fifth Regiment of the County of the...
The slave Charles Deslondes is thought to have been brought from St. Domingue (present-day Haiti) to the Deslondes Plantation in present-day LaPlace. Some...
The Rise of the Gold Coast Indigo, the main crop of German Coast settlers for many years, had been brought to the colony from the West Indies in the 1700s...