Napoleonville was incorporated March 11, , during the govern-ship of Francis Tillyou Nicholls. Governor Nicholls was practicing law in Napoleonville when chosen for his first term, Upon issuance of the charter he appointed his erstwhile partner, L.
Folse, first mayor of the town. Other officers were Dr. R, Beasly, Charles Dupaty, J. Delaune and Nathan Webster, aldermen; A. Folso, secretary, and Pierre Juliat, constable. Assumption Post Office was the name given to the Napoleonville community in the 's by the postal authorities, and all mail was so addressed. Mail was carried down Bayou Lafourche. That for the west went by pirogue or skiff through the Attakapas Canal to Lake Verret.
In Charles A. Besse was postmaster, After incorporation the Federal designation was changed to Napoleonville, and Mrs. Pintado was first postmaster. Fires In and destroyed practically all of the existing town. The first consumed even the fire hall, located on the court-house yard. Fire fighters in the second conflagration were handicapped because a drought had left wells dry, and it was necessary to form bucket brigades from Bayou Lafourche.
The fire of took one life, that of Judge Whittingdon who was burned to death in a hotel. April 17, , was an historic day in Napoleonville. They autographed the minute book of the district court, and the ambassador made a speech. A translation of the French inscription in the minute book reads: "Never did any Ambassador of France have a more magnificent reception and feel a more sincere emotion than came to me this day in this country of the Acadiana at Napoleonville.
Claude1, Ambassador of France. April 17, Marie Antoinette Claudel. It was founded by the Spanish. Legend says an early traveler, unable to buy a single loaf of bread there, facetiously called the place "short of bread town," which is just what the translation is.
Plattenville apparently was a center prior to , for residents there had unsuccessfully petitioned for the erection of a church several times before one was built in that year. Other communities, all small, reflect the cultural heritage of the French-Acadians.
Transportation and Communication Lafourche is the French word for "the fork," applied by early comers to the bayou that bears that name, because of the fork-like shape of this outlet from the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. These pioneers, confronted by the coastal marshes and thick undergrowth covering Assumption lands, had no transportation avenues other than the lakes and waterways, Bayou Lafourche being chief of these. Plying their courses successively were pirogues of the explorers, larger craft bearing Spanish garrisons, keel boats taking out produce of the first plantations to Lafourche Settlement now Donaldsonville.
Leading to the west a number of smaller bayous provided the trappers and landseekers with ingress to areas around Lake Verret, Lake Palourde, and along Grand River. Canals augmented this waterway system. As early as the community that later became Napoleonville was known as "Canal. It was closed by This canal extended west from Napoleonville to Lake Verret. The legislature In conveyed title of its site within Napoleonville to the municipality, and it has been partially filled in.
It was constructed in In all of the southern parishes of Louisiana tow-paths developed along the bayous leading gradually to routes called "cordelle roads. The police juries were given this duty in Assumption Parish was included in the general road law of which made mandatory the construction of roads along waterways and of bridges and their maintenance under supervision of the police jury.
Assumption Parish has participated along with other parishes of Louisiana in the State highway program as mapped out by the Constitution of , and later laws.
Under legislative acts of and much local road control was assumed by the State. State Highway No. On the opposite bank is State Highway No. Four other routes of the latter type stem west and southwest from Highway No. For a few miles U. Highway No. Of approximately miles of highways in the parish, about 25 miles are paved.
Two railroads serve the parish. A branch of Southern Pacific Lines enters from the south on the right bank of Bayou Lafourche, extending through Napoleonville to Donaldsonville. A Texas and Pacific Railway branch on the other bank provides freight service from Donaldsonville to Thibodaux, touching Napoleonville and other communities. The Southern Pacific main line from New Orleans to the west coast passes through Assumption for a few miles in the extreme south. The latter was the first railroad to touch the parish.
A movement for a railroad through the center of Assumption Parish was begun in when a charter with 57 signers was granted on November 20, to the proposed Lafourche, Assumption and Ascension Railroad.
Pugh was president of this company which sold stock in preparation for a carrier to connect Napoleonville and Donaldsonville. In the stock was ordered transferred to other interests with provision that the road be completed in 2 years. At this point records of the company cease. Sam F. Gilbert in his History of Napoleonville reports that the first trip over the Southern Pacific Lines to Napoleonville was made October 22, Albert J.
Lirette, today a resident of the Parish, was a brakeman. The Southern Pacific places the date of the extension to Napoleonville as Shortly after reaching Napoleonville the branch was extended to Donaldsonville. Then in the first years of the present century the Texas and Pacific became a competitor throughout this area. The Donaldsonville and Napoleonville Railway was granted a franchise in Mather Bringier was agent. Absorption by the Texas and Pacific followed shortly. The first telephone reached Napoleonville in Service was to Donaldsonville and was perhaps unique In that the caller wrote out his message which was transmitted by the operator.
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Forgot Password. Please enter your email address or username below. Please Signup. Subscriber Volunteer. Pick Volunteer or Subscriber. Spaces, special symbols or capital letters are not allowed! The bayou is miles long from Donaldsonville to its mouth emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. The Intracostal Waterway is linked with many navigable bayous on the west side of the parish. The road along the western bank of Bayou Lafourche Louisiana Highway 1 - LA 1 has been described as the longest street in the world.
A large number of houses are built close to each other almost the entire mile length of the bayou. On the opposite bank is State Highway Many bridges cross the bayou to connect Highway 1 and Highway About four miles of U. Highway 90, the only Federal highway in the parish, passes through the extreme southern part of the parish.
Several oil companies have lines into or through the parish. Family Tree. From FamilySearch Wiki. United States. Assumption Parish. Louisiana Online Genealogy Records. Record Loss [ edit edit source ] There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county: [5] Villages Napoleonville.
Plattenville Westfield Wildwood Woodlawn. Bayou L'Ourse Belle Rose. Labadieville Paincourtville. Pierre Part Supreme. Draper, Utah: Everton Pub. Provo, Utah: Ancestry, , Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, Hidden category: Adopted pages. Navigation menu Personal tools English. Namespaces Page Talk. Views Read View source View history.
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