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    • 18th Century Timeline
    • Ancient Civilization – Forgotten Cultures (Prehistory to 1500 AD)
      • American Indians
      • Poverty Point
    • Exploration and Discovery (1542-1647)
    • The French Colonial Period (1698-1762)
      • Immigration and Settlement
      • John Law’s Charter
      • First Families – The Pioneers
      • Karl Fredrick Darensbourg & Early Villages
      • Bustard’s Cove – L’Anse aux Outardes
      • La Paroisse de St. Jean des Allemands Catholic Church
      • Slavery
      • Breadbasket of the Colony
      • Mississippi River Levees (18th Century)
      • Indian Unrest
      • Health and Education of the Colony
      • Acadians Arrive
    • The Spanish Colonial Period (1762-1800)
      • Insurrection
      • Prosperity Under Spanish Rule
      • 1770 Land Grants to Catholic Church
      • Revolutionary War
      • The Culture of Sugar Cane
    • End of 18th Century
  • 19th Century
    • 19th Century Timeline
    • The Territorial Period (1803-1812)
      • Early 1800s Letter from the Coast
      • The Louisiana Purchase – 1803
      • Territory of Orleans and County of the German Coast – 1805
      • The Little Red Church (1806)
      • The Birth of St. Charles Parish – 1807
      • 1811 Slave Revolt
      • Statehood – 1812
    • The Antebellum Period (1803-1861)
      • Battle of New Orleans (1814-1815)
      • Showboats
      • Rise of Plantations
      • Mississippi River Levees (19th Century)
      • 1826 Courthouse
      • German Coast Influence Spreads (1843)
      • Descendants of Early Settlers
      • Fr. Joseph Paret Arrives on German Coast – 1848
      • Life On The Bayou – 1850s
      • Early Railroads
      • Emergence of Protestant Churches – 1859
      • Fr. Paret’s Watercolors & Journal – 1859
      • Tourist’s View of the Parish
      • St. Charles Parish in Spotlight – Star Plantation
    • Civil War Period (1861-1865)
      • Role of Slaves and Free People of Color in the History of SCP
      • Ordinance of Secession
      • Governor Georg Michael Hahn
      • Major Parish Skirmishes
      • The Emancipation Proclamation
      • Fashion, LaBranche, Other Plantations Destroyed
    • Reconstruction (1866-1877)
      • Rost Home Colony
      • Italians Arrive
      • Flaggville, Hahnville
      • Early Roadways and Commerce
      • Spanish Influence
      • Early Parish Laws
      • First Parish Newspaper
      • Diamond Plantation
      • Red Church Rectory Fire – 1877
    • Post-Occupation (1877-1900)
      • Labor Strikes – 1880
      • Bethlehem Benevolent Society
      • Telephone & Mail Service
      • Crevasses
      • German Coast Dwellings
      • Mamzelle
      • Public Education
      • Parish Ferries
    • End of 19th Century
  • 20th Century
    • 20th Century Timeline
    • First Industrial Era (1901-1950)
      • Plantations to Petroleum – East Bank
      • Cypress Lugger Tugboat Denver
      • West Bank Resources and Exports
      • Cultural Changes
      • Lifestyle Changes
      • Scenes to Remember – Walt Day
    • Second Industrial Era (1952-1976)
      • Plantations to Petroleum – West Bank/East Bank Expansion
      • Cultural Changes
      • Education Update
      • Community Events
      • Evolution of the Courthouse
    • Home Rule Charter Period (1977)
      • Police Jury to Home Rule
      • Good Hope Buyout
      • Hale Boggs Bridge / Interstate I-310
      • Ferry Service Ends – 1983
      • Nuclear Power
      • Waterford: Agriculture to Industry
      • Historical Discovery
      • Business Parks
      • Activities and Events
    • Contemporary Times
      • Terrorist Attacks
      • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial
      • Hurricane Katrina – 2005
      • Saving the Wetlands
      • Fairs and Festivals
      • Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion Project
      • 2007 Bicentennial Proclamations
      • Mural
  • Education
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    • Collections & Lists
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      • Herald-Guide Profiles
      • Historical Markers
      • Historical Settlements
      • Parish History Timelines
      • List of Parish Ferry Landings
      • Local Notables
      • Newspapers & Magazines
      • Oral Histories – Text
      • People of Color
      • Post Offices
      • Recorded German Coast Crevasses
      • Shell Bulletins
      • Taft News
      • Town Histories
      • Train Depots
    • Video
      • Interviews
      • Documentaries
      • Presentations
      • Dedications & Ceremonies
      • Historical Footage
      • Promos
      • Education Through Historic Preservation
      • Mother’s Day Parade
    • Audio
      • Oral Histories
      • Musical Legends of St. Charles Parish
  • 18th Century
    • 18th Century Timeline
    • Ancient Civilization – Forgotten Cultures (Prehistory to 1500 AD)
      • American Indians
      • Poverty Point
    • Exploration and Discovery (1542-1647)
    • The French Colonial Period (1698-1762)
      • Immigration and Settlement
      • John Law’s Charter
      • First Families – The Pioneers
      • Karl Fredrick Darensbourg & Early Villages
      • Bustard’s Cove – L’Anse aux Outardes
      • La Paroisse de St. Jean des Allemands Catholic Church
      • Slavery
      • Breadbasket of the Colony
      • Mississippi River Levees (18th Century)
      • Indian Unrest
      • Health and Education of the Colony
      • Acadians Arrive
    • The Spanish Colonial Period (1762-1800)
      • Insurrection
      • Prosperity Under Spanish Rule
      • 1770 Land Grants to Catholic Church
      • Revolutionary War
      • The Culture of Sugar Cane
    • End of 18th Century
  • 19th Century
    • 19th Century Timeline
    • The Territorial Period (1803-1812)
      • Early 1800s Letter from the Coast
      • The Louisiana Purchase – 1803
      • Territory of Orleans and County of the German Coast – 1805
      • The Little Red Church (1806)
      • The Birth of St. Charles Parish – 1807
      • 1811 Slave Revolt
      • Statehood – 1812
    • The Antebellum Period (1803-1861)
      • Battle of New Orleans (1814-1815)
      • Showboats
      • Rise of Plantations
      • Mississippi River Levees (19th Century)
      • 1826 Courthouse
      • German Coast Influence Spreads (1843)
      • Descendants of Early Settlers
      • Fr. Joseph Paret Arrives on German Coast – 1848
      • Life On The Bayou – 1850s
      • Early Railroads
      • Emergence of Protestant Churches – 1859
      • Fr. Paret’s Watercolors & Journal – 1859
      • Tourist’s View of the Parish
      • St. Charles Parish in Spotlight – Star Plantation
    • Civil War Period (1861-1865)
      • Role of Slaves and Free People of Color in the History of SCP
      • Ordinance of Secession
      • Governor Georg Michael Hahn
      • Major Parish Skirmishes
      • The Emancipation Proclamation
      • Fashion, LaBranche, Other Plantations Destroyed
    • Reconstruction (1866-1877)
      • Rost Home Colony
      • Italians Arrive
      • Flaggville, Hahnville
      • Early Roadways and Commerce
      • Spanish Influence
      • Early Parish Laws
      • First Parish Newspaper
      • Diamond Plantation
      • Red Church Rectory Fire – 1877
    • Post-Occupation (1877-1900)
      • Labor Strikes – 1880
      • Bethlehem Benevolent Society
      • Telephone & Mail Service
      • Crevasses
      • German Coast Dwellings
      • Mamzelle
      • Public Education
      • Parish Ferries
    • End of 19th Century
  • 20th Century
    • 20th Century Timeline
    • First Industrial Era (1901-1950)
      • Plantations to Petroleum – East Bank
      • Cypress Lugger Tugboat Denver
      • West Bank Resources and Exports
      • Cultural Changes
      • Lifestyle Changes
      • Scenes to Remember – Walt Day
    • Second Industrial Era (1952-1976)
      • Plantations to Petroleum – West Bank/East Bank Expansion
      • Cultural Changes
      • Education Update
      • Community Events
      • Evolution of the Courthouse
    • Home Rule Charter Period (1977)
      • Police Jury to Home Rule
      • Good Hope Buyout
      • Hale Boggs Bridge / Interstate I-310
      • Ferry Service Ends – 1983
      • Nuclear Power
      • Waterford: Agriculture to Industry
      • Historical Discovery
      • Business Parks
      • Activities and Events
    • Contemporary Times
      • Terrorist Attacks
      • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial
      • Hurricane Katrina – 2005
      • Saving the Wetlands
      • Fairs and Festivals
      • Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion Project
      • 2007 Bicentennial Proclamations
      • Mural
  • Education
  • Pictorial History
  • Mural
  • Submit
St. Charles Parish, Louisiana Virtual History Museum
  • Home
  • About
  • Explore
    • Collections & Lists
      • Cemeteries
      • Church Timeline
      • Community Links
      • Education
      • Education Through Historic Preservation
      • Glossary
      • Herald-Guide Profiles
      • Historical Markers
      • Historical Settlements
      • Parish History Timelines
      • List of Parish Ferry Landings
      • Local Notables
      • Newspapers & Magazines
      • Oral Histories – Text
      • People of Color
      • Post Offices
      • Recorded German Coast Crevasses
      • Shell Bulletins
      • Taft News
      • Town Histories
      • Train Depots
    • Video
      • Interviews
      • Documentaries
      • Presentations
      • Dedications & Ceremonies
      • Historical Footage
      • Promos
      • Education Through Historic Preservation
      • Mother’s Day Parade
    • Audio
      • Oral Histories
      • Musical Legends of St. Charles Parish
  • 18th Century
    • 18th Century Timeline
    • Ancient Civilization – Forgotten Cultures (Prehistory to 1500 AD)
      • American Indians
      • Poverty Point
    • Exploration and Discovery (1542-1647)
    • The French Colonial Period (1698-1762)
      • Immigration and Settlement
      • John Law’s Charter
      • First Families – The Pioneers
      • Karl Fredrick Darensbourg & Early Villages
      • Bustard’s Cove – L’Anse aux Outardes
      • La Paroisse de St. Jean des Allemands Catholic Church
      • Slavery
      • Breadbasket of the Colony
      • Mississippi River Levees (18th Century)
      • Indian Unrest
      • Health and Education of the Colony
      • Acadians Arrive
    • The Spanish Colonial Period (1762-1800)
      • Insurrection
      • Prosperity Under Spanish Rule
      • 1770 Land Grants to Catholic Church
      • Revolutionary War
      • The Culture of Sugar Cane
    • End of 18th Century
  • 19th Century
    • 19th Century Timeline
    • The Territorial Period (1803-1812)
      • Early 1800s Letter from the Coast
      • The Louisiana Purchase – 1803
      • Territory of Orleans and County of the German Coast – 1805
      • The Little Red Church (1806)
      • The Birth of St. Charles Parish – 1807
      • 1811 Slave Revolt
      • Statehood – 1812
    • The Antebellum Period (1803-1861)
      • Battle of New Orleans (1814-1815)
      • Showboats
      • Rise of Plantations
      • Mississippi River Levees (19th Century)
      • 1826 Courthouse
      • German Coast Influence Spreads (1843)
      • Descendants of Early Settlers
      • Fr. Joseph Paret Arrives on German Coast – 1848
      • Life On The Bayou – 1850s
      • Early Railroads
      • Emergence of Protestant Churches – 1859
      • Fr. Paret’s Watercolors & Journal – 1859
      • Tourist’s View of the Parish
      • St. Charles Parish in Spotlight – Star Plantation
    • Civil War Period (1861-1865)
      • Role of Slaves and Free People of Color in the History of SCP
      • Ordinance of Secession
      • Governor Georg Michael Hahn
      • Major Parish Skirmishes
      • The Emancipation Proclamation
      • Fashion, LaBranche, Other Plantations Destroyed
    • Reconstruction (1866-1877)
      • Rost Home Colony
      • Italians Arrive
      • Flaggville, Hahnville
      • Early Roadways and Commerce
      • Spanish Influence
      • Early Parish Laws
      • First Parish Newspaper
      • Diamond Plantation
      • Red Church Rectory Fire – 1877
    • Post-Occupation (1877-1900)
      • Labor Strikes – 1880
      • Bethlehem Benevolent Society
      • Telephone & Mail Service
      • Crevasses
      • German Coast Dwellings
      • Mamzelle
      • Public Education
      • Parish Ferries
    • End of 19th Century
  • 20th Century
    • 20th Century Timeline
    • First Industrial Era (1901-1950)
      • Plantations to Petroleum – East Bank
      • Cypress Lugger Tugboat Denver
      • West Bank Resources and Exports
      • Cultural Changes
      • Lifestyle Changes
      • Scenes to Remember – Walt Day
    • Second Industrial Era (1952-1976)
      • Plantations to Petroleum – West Bank/East Bank Expansion
      • Cultural Changes
      • Education Update
      • Community Events
      • Evolution of the Courthouse
    • Home Rule Charter Period (1977)
      • Police Jury to Home Rule
      • Good Hope Buyout
      • Hale Boggs Bridge / Interstate I-310
      • Ferry Service Ends – 1983
      • Nuclear Power
      • Waterford: Agriculture to Industry
      • Historical Discovery
      • Business Parks
      • Activities and Events
    • Contemporary Times
      • Terrorist Attacks
      • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial
      • Hurricane Katrina – 2005
      • Saving the Wetlands
      • Fairs and Festivals
      • Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion Project
      • 2007 Bicentennial Proclamations
      • Mural
  • Education
  • Pictorial History
  • Mural
  • Submit
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The Region of Norco and its People
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