Lafourche Parish (La.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Historic Lafourche Parish Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-00017
Scope and Contents
This collection dates from 1773 to 2006 and spans 7 linear feet. It consists of photographs, reports, printed materials, correspondence, meeting minutes, maps, blueprints, ephemera, and artifacts relating to the history and culture of Lafourche Parish in Louisiana. The collection is divided into the following series: General parish history, People, Events, Organizations, Education, Churches, Foodways, Historic sites, Transportation, and Business and industry.
Dates:
1773-2006, undated; Majority of material found in circa 1900-1990
Lafourche Parish Courthouse Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-00188
Scope and Contents
This collection spans 135 linear feet and dates from 1773 to 1983. The bulk of the materials date from approximately 1820 to 1941. The collection comprises vital, court, land, tax, and immigration records of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. This includes records of birth, death, marriage, divorce, civil and criminal court cases, wills and estates, orphans and adoption, insolvency, lunacy, voters and elections, licenses, militias, oaths, schools, judgements and appeals, indenture, slave sales,...
Dates:
1773-1983; Majority of material found in 1820-1941
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- Agricultural industries -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Bowie (La.) 1
- Cold War 1
- Community organization -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Contracts for deeds -- Louisiana. 1
- Cooking -- Louisiana 1
- Cut Off (La.) 1
- Elections -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Fishing -- Louisiana 1
- Floods -- Louisiana. 1
- Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. 1
- Home economics extension work -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Hurricane Betsy, 1965. 1
- Lafourche Crossing (La.) 1
- Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
- Lockport (La.) 1
- Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1
- Louisiana -- Social life and customs. 1
- Manila Village (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
- Marriage records -- Louisiana 1
- Marshlands 1
- Natural resources -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Oil industries -- Louisiana 1
- Raceland (La.) 1
- Railroads -- Employees 1
- School boards -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Schools -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Slavery -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Trapping -- Louisiana 1
- Volunteer fire departments -- Louisiana 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 ∧ less
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