Allen Parish French: Paroisse d'Allen  Is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Oberlin and As of 2000, the population was 25,440. Allen Parish is in southwestern Louisiana, southwest of Alexandria. The original name in 1804 was "Territory of Orleans". In 1807 the territory was divided into nineteen parishes, Allen was  part of Calcasieu parish with the parish seat in Lake Charles. People began to settle the area forming a wonderful mixed culture including Acadian French, French from France, Scotch-Irish, German, English and others. As the Parish became more heavily populated, it became necessary to make another division. On June 12, 1912 almost 100 years after the Louisiana Purchase, three parishes were carved out of the Calcasieu- Jefferson Davis, Allen and Beauregard. The rest remained the Calcasieu. The Northeastern portion that became Allen, was named after the Confederate States Army general and former  governor of Louisiana, Henry Watkins Allen. Cities, towns, and villages Elizabeth Grant Kinder LeBlanc Mittie Oakdale Oberlin Reeves Neighboring Counties Northeast: Rapides Parish East: Evangeline Parish South: Jefferson Davis Parish West: Beauregard Parish Northwest: Vernon Parish Allen Parish Courthouse	Welcome to this Louisiana Genealogy Trails Website. My name is Janice, and I am your host for Louisiana.  If you would like to submit data for this site, please email me with your submissions. Happy Trails to you on your quest for your ancestors. This is a new site, fashioned after our successful Illinois Trails websites, and we hope to soon add data here that can help Louisiana researchers as much as we've been able to help our Illinois researchers. We need some help to do that though - volunteers to host these county websites. If you can make a basic webpage, and you have a desire to transcribe data for the free use of all researchers, we can use your talents! Review our Volunteer Information and email Kim. In the meantime, join our mailing list to be kept apprised of updates to this website.     Online Data We intend to put data from all these categories online eventually. Feel free to contribute your data to this site to help it grow! ONLINE NOW       COMING SOON                          Louisiana is organized by Parish rather than County We need Parish Hosts! Email Kim if you want to help us to keep online Genealogy free! Acadia Parish Madison Parish Allen Parish Morehouse Parish Ascension Parish Natchitoches Parish Assumption Parish Orleans Parish Avoyelles Parish Ouachita Parish Beauregard Parish Plaquemines Parish Bienville Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Bossier Parish Rapides Parish Caddo Parish Red River Parish Calcasieu Parish Richland Parish Caldwell Parish Sabine Parish Cameron Parish St. Bernard Parish Catahoula Parish St. Charles Parish Claiborne Parish St. Helena Parish Concordia Parish St. James Parish DeSoto Parish St. John The Baptist Parish East Baton Rouge Parish St. Landry Parish East Carroll Parish St. Martin Parish East Feliciana Parish St. Mary Parish Evangeline Parish St. Tammany Parish Franklin Parish Tangipahoa Parish Grant Parish Tensas Parish Iberia Parish Terrebonne Parish Iberville Parish Union Parish Jackson Parish Vermilion Parish Jefferson Davis Parish Vernon Parish Jefferson Parish Washington Parish Lafayette Consolidated Government Webster Parish Lafourche Parish West Baton Rouge Parish LaSalle Parish West Carroll Parish Lincoln Parish West Feliciana Parish Livingston Parish Winn Parish
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