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St.
John Baptist
Parish
(French:
Paroisse de Saint-Jean-Baptiste)
St. John the
Baptist was created March 31, 1807
by an act of the
Orleans Territory Legislature, and
was one of the original 19
Louisiana parishes. The parish
seat is Edgard. There is no
incorporated towns in St. John
Baptist Parish. St. John the
Baptist Parish was the second
permanent settlement in
Louisiana.. The parish was
established in the early 1720s by
a group of German colonists. Many
families established towns around
the Mississippi River in the areas
now known as Lucy, Garyville, and
Reserve. The area was under the
French regime until 1768 when
France delivered Louisiana to the
Spanish. Around this time period,
many Acadians, or
"Cajuns", began arriving
in south Louisiana due to being
exiled from their homes in what is
now Nova Scotia. The first Acadian
village was established in what is
now Wallace. The German and French
cultures thrived alongside one
another, but French came to be the
dominant language.
Communities
Edgard
Garyville
LaPlace
Reserve
Wallace
Adjacent
parishes
Tangipohoa
Parish (north)
Lake Pontchartrain (northeast)
St.
Charles Parish (southeast)
Lafourche
Parish (south)
St.
James Parish (west)
Ascension
Parish & Livingston
Parish (northwest)
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