Download or read book Place names of Natchitoches Parish written by Nora Berry and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louisiana Place Names written by Clare D’Artois Leeper and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mamou in between, researcher Clare D'Artois Leeper offers an alphabet of Louisiana place names, both past and present. Leeper includes 893 entries that reveal a distinct view of the state's history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom results in an entertaining guide to Louisiana's place name lore. Leeper considers the origins of each place as well as each name, drawing attention to the individuals who transformed Louisiana from an uninhabited wilderness into a populated state. Not surprising for a region that has existed under ten flags, Louisiana's place names reflect a mixture of several languages and point to other locales across the country and around the world. Even the state's name, Leeper points out, combines the French Louis and the Spanish iana, meaning "belonging to" Louis XIV. Name origins trace back to geography, flora, fauna, religion, weather, people, and occasionally, a flood, a favorite book, or a popular local dish. Leeper conducted numerous interviews, visited courthouses, museums, and libraries, and more recently made use of the Geographic Names Information System to create this fascinating collection of Louisiana history and folklore.
Download or read book Family Maps of Natchitoches Parish Louisiana Deluxe Edition written by Gregory A. Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 438 pages with 146 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 4384 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 65 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1830s149 1840s529 1850s414 1860s1265 1870s84 1880s233 1890s626 1900s857 1910s196 1920s26 What Cities and Towns are in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (and in this book)? Adois (historical), Ajax, Allen, Ashland, Beechwood Estates, Bellwood, Bermuda, Bethel, Breedlove Hills, Calvert Acres, Campti, Caspari (historical), Chestnut, Chinquapin Park, Chopin, Clarence, Clear Lake (historical), Cloutierville, Cockfield (historical), Cognac (historical), Creston, Cypress, Derry, East Natchitoches, Fairview Acres, Fairview Alpha, Fern, Flora, Forest, Galbraith, Goldonna, Gorum, Grand Ecore, Grappes Bluff, Greenwood Park, Hagen (historical), Hagewood, Harris, Henryville (historical), Highland Acres, Hyams, Irma, Janie, Kile, King Hill, Kisatchie, Knightville (historical), Kraft, Lakeview, Los Adaes (historical), Lotus, Luella, Magnolia, Marco, Marthaville, Melrose, Mink, Montrose, Mora, Natchez, Natchitoches, Oak Grove, Oakhill, Oakleaf Estates, Odra, Oshkosh (historical), Pleasant Hill, Point Place, Pollockville, Powhatan, Provencal, Readheimer, Red Dirt (historical), Robeline, Sampusand, Shady Grove, Shamard Heights, Shamrock, Skidder, Stephens, Timon, Trichell, Victoria, Vienna Bend, Vowells Mill, Westlake, Williams Corner (historical), Wood
Download or read book Louisiana Place Names written by Clare D’Artois Leeper and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mamou in between, researcher Clare D'Artois Leeper offers an alphabet of Louisiana place names, both past and present. Leeper includes 893 entries that reveal a distinct view of the state's history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom results in an entertaining guide to Louisiana's place name lore. Leeper considers the origins of each place as well as each name, drawing attention to the individuals who transformed Louisiana from an uninhabited wilderness into a populated state. Not surprising for a region that has existed under ten flags, Louisiana's place names reflect a mixture of several languages and point to other locales across the country and around the world. Even the state's name, Leeper points out, combines the French Louis and the Spanish iana, meaning "belonging to" Louis XIV. Name origins trace back to geography, flora, fauna, religion, weather, people, and occasionally, a flood, a favorite book, or a popular local dish. Leeper conducted numerous interviews, visited courthouses, museums, and libraries, and more recently made use of the Geographic Names Information System to create this fascinating collection of Louisiana history and folklore.
Download or read book Indian Place names in Louisiana written by William Alexander Read and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Maps of Natchitoches Parish Louisiana Deluxe Edition written by Gregory A. Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louisiana Place names of Indian Origin written by William Alexander Read and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cemeteries of Natchitoches Parish Louisiana written by Natchitoches Genealogical and Historical Association (Louisiana) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Names are listed in alphabetical order.
Download or read book Housing and Planning References written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decisions on Geographic Names in the United States written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing and Planning References written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Natchitoches Parish Louisiana written by Donna Rachal Mills and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana is an important chapter pulled from the original Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, originally published in 1890. Donna Rachel Mills has added an every name ind
Download or read book The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States written by Henry Gannett and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Place Names written by Edward Callary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] linguist . . . takes readers on a tour across the state, using names and language to tell its history.” ―Alcalde Was Gasoline, Texas, named in honor of a gas station? Nope, but the name does honor the town’s original claim to fame: a gasoline-powered cotton gin. Is Paris, Texas, a reference to Paris, France? Yes: Thomas Poteet, who donated land for the town site, thought it would be an improvement over “Pin Hook,” the original name of the Lamar County seat. Ding Dong’s story has a nice ring to it; the name was derived from two store owners named Bell, who lived in Bell County, of course. Tracing the turning points, fascinating characters, and cultural crossroads that shaped Texas history, Texas Place Names provides the colorful stories behind these and more than three thousand other county, city, and community names. Drawing on in-depth research to present the facts behind the folklore, linguist Edward Callary also clarifies pronunciations (it’s NAY-chis for Neches, referring to a Caddoan people whose name was attached to the Neches River during a Spanish expedition). A great resource for road trippers and historians alike, Texas Place Names alphabetically charts centuries of humanity through the enduring words (and, occasionally, the fateful spelling gaffes) left behind by men and women from all walks of life. “[A] quite useful book.” ―Austin American-Statesman
Download or read book Placenames of the Civil War written by John D. Bennett and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the plethora of books about the Civil War, the origins of many of the placenames associated with the conflict remain a mystery. This gazetteer provides information on nearly 1600 sites, including not only locations of battles and skirmishes but also hospitals, prison camps, military academies, factories and navy yards, both North and South. Also listed are islands, rivers, creeks, fords, ferries and railroad stations, as well as many temporary fort and camp names. From Abbeville, Georgia, where Jefferson Davis stopped in May 1865 days before his capture near Irwinville, to Yorktown, Virginia, which was besieged by General George B. McClellan at the start of the Peninsula campaign, entries explain the origin of each placename and its wartime connections. An appendix listing town and city population figures from the 1860 census completes this informative supplement for Civil War scholars and enthusiasts.
Download or read book Southern Literary Culture written by Marion C. Michael and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University Bulletin written by Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
