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Louisiana's location in the U. Assumption Roman Catholic Church. Pierre Part. Iberia Parish. Iberville Parish and Ascension Parish.

James Parish. Martin Parish. Lafourche Parish. Mary Parish. Terrebonne Parish. Assumption Parish Census Data [4]. Belle Rose Labadieville. The total rainfall in was The average date for the last killing frost in the spring is February 27, and the first in the fall is November Bayou Lafourche is Assumption's only navigable stream for craft of more than smallest draw.

It enters the parish at a north central point, following a southeasterly course for some 25 miles before passing into Lafourche Parish. Elevation at Napoleonville is 14 feet above sea level. The parish's lowest point, 9 feet, is at Lake Verret. As in the case of several other Louisiana civil parishes where the sphere of influence of an ecclesiastical parish extended over the territory in question, Assumption Parish received its name from a church.

When the territorial legislature in divided Louisiana into 12 counties, Lafourche County—its limits included the present Assumption Parish—was defined as comprehending the ecclesiastical parish of Assumption. Two years later Lafourche County itself was divided. One portion was established as the civil parish of Assumption,so named for the little church. When French explorers, about the beginning of the eighteenth century ventured into the Bayou Lafourche region they are believed to have found there Kasha, Chawasha, and Chitimacha Indians, the latter composed of four powerful bands which roved from the bayou west.

The Chitimacha groups made up one of the six leading tribes in Louisiana in The tribe during the first decade of white exploration gained considerable notoriety and punishment for the murder of a Catholic priest, Father Jean St.

Cosmo, and three Canadian companions. In reprisal Governor Bienville induced other Indians to attack the Chitimacha and they were driven west-ward from Bayou Lafourche. Attempts were made later by rival tribes to enslave the Chitimacha, and warfare continued intermittently until when Bienville demanded peace to which the Indians agreed Before its present name was applied, Bayou Lafourche was called by the French "the river of the Chitimacha.

They possessed a culture apparently somewhat higher than neighboring aborigines. The women were expert basket makers and weavers of cane mats. Rigid caste lines were maintained. Chiefs and leaders wore nobles, forbidden, on pain of losing station, to marry commoners. Wounds on Lake Verret are believed to have been Chitimacha burial places.

In these have been found a bust of a man sculptured In stone, human bones, burnt clay, and white stones shaped as lance or arrow heads. Little of the history of the Washa and Chawasha Indians has been preserved. The former had villages all along Bayou Lafourche. Their principal settlement is believed to have been located near Labadieville, where in there were some fifty warriors. The Chawasha unit was even smaller. In three red men were reported as Assumption residents.

Ten years later there was only one,and Federal enumerations since fail to disclose any representatives of the race in the pariah. Prior to the French, proceeding south along Bayou Lafourche from where that stream forks with the Mississippi, settled on both sides of "the river of the Chitimacha.

Upon acquisition of the territory by the United States in , English speaking land seekers came and at Napoleonville, named by a soldier who had served under the Little Corporal, they found a thriving market place. Yet another group, the Canary Islanders or Islenos, added to the nationalities entering the area.

The lalenos were sent in and by Governor Bernardo de Galvet to the locality near Plattenville called Valenzuela Post. The post was about at the site of Belle Alliance, where today stands a plantation home bearing the latter name and built in by Charles Kook.

Nearby are ruins of the Belle Alliance Sugar house, once one of the most important west of the Mississippi River, and around which a Negro community has grown. South of the parish seat, the area around Labadieville was taken up by French and Spanish, joined by Acadians and a sprinkling of Germans from the Code des Allemands or German Coast to the east on the Mississippi River. This was during the two decades after Labadieville takes its name from a pioneer resident, Jean Louis Labadie.

Descendants of these settlers comprise a very considerable part of Assumption's present population. Upon the cession to Spain in the 's the first commandant was Nicolas Verret.

He was succeeded by Villanueva. The story is told that the transfer to the Spanish did not meet the approval of all Assumption. One, Daspit St. Amant, loudly opposed the new government and his arrest was ordered. Amant placed a keg of gunpowder in the door of his home and defied officers; the latter retreated on his threat to explode the powder. Friends of St. Amant met them during the withdrawal and persuaded the officers that the belligerent citizen should be left strictly alone, which was apparently done.

Claiborne was James Mather. He was succeeded by Bela Hubbard who in turn was made parish judge, and followed by Courvoisler, Wincelas Pichot, who was killed in a duel, and lastly Alexander Covillier. The latter for some thirty years lived alone on Lake Verret at a time when that body of water was known only to a few white hunters. By John Foley, D.

Williamson, and Thomas and Augustin Pugh had moved in from English speaking states. One hundred years ago plantations owned by members of the Pugh family dotted both sides of Bayou Lafourche. Still standing on the stream's left bank across from Napoleonville is Madewood, plantation home of Colonel Thomas Pugh, completed in It was 8 years in the building.

Timber was cut on the site, and bricks were made by slave labor. Decorative woodwork, exterior and interior, was turned on the plantation, hence the name. It is thought that Assumption Parish's first courthouse stood on Madewood Plantation site. Nearby is Woodlawn, now in disrepair.

It was the residence of W. Here in the family cemetery is a stone inscribed "Our little Louis perished during the storm at Last Island—August 10, Pugh served a number of terms as police juror and was president of that body during the trying Reconstruction days. Residing today in Napoleonville is Dr. Thomas B Pugh, son of W. He is reputedly the oldest practicing physician in the State. Pugh is said to be the only survivor of the last Island disaster. As a child he accompanied members of his family to the Gulf resort, and was one of the few who escaped.

He has served as mayor Of Napoleonville, and during his administration the town's first paved sidewalks were laid. Napoleonville, parish seat, is the largest town in Assumption with a population of 1, The parish had previously been part of the Lafourche Settlement, one of the earliest settlements of Louisiana. Agricultural Base Assumption Parish has always been an agriculturally based parish, beginning with the Indian inhabitation. Historical records indicate that the first settlers to come to the region were likely trappers and traders, but farmers soon followed.

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