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...
Category - People of Color
There was a man by the name of Palmer Elkins, a free slave, a business man, an entrepreneur and a minister of the gospel as he was noted.
After the Civil War in 1873, Palmer Elkins, a free man of color, purchased property, tracts 8, 9, & 10 for $943.50.
The St. Charles Historical Foundation, Ethnic Heritage Committee, initiated this project in an effort to preserve one of our historic treasures in St. Charles...
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...
In the early 1960s, the parish school system began to plan for desegregation of public schools.
Music Legends and Lesser-Known Musicians Music has always been a part of everyday life in St. Charles Parish. From within the home to within the community and...
In 1870, Judicial District Judge Othello Jerome Flagg, a Union soldier formally affiliated with the Freedmen’s Bureau, purchased five arpents of land adjacent...
In 1865, Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau. Destrehan's Rost Home Colony was an agricultural collective providing schools, stores, and a hospital.