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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
Lafourche Parish Police Jury Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-00112
Scope and Contents
This collection dates from 1942 to 1952 and spans 2.5 linear feet. It comprises records of the activities of the Lafourche Parish Police Jury, including correspondence, memoranda, clippings, reports, surveys, resolutions, acts, lists, financial information, minutes, plans, and ephemera. The records concern public heath, flood control, utilities, local businesses, schools, and other parish matters.
Dates:
1942-1952, undated
W.P.A. collection. Historical Records Survey transcriptions of Louisiana police jury records.
Collection
Identifier: MS-00220
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of microfilm of transcriptions of police jury meeting minutes for Assumption Parish between 1848 and 1924, Lafourche Parish between 1852 and 1933, and Terrebonne Parish between 1822 and 1936. The records document government functions such as elections, road building, public health, law enforcement, parish budgets and taxes, the development of education for blacks and whites, the battle to control yellow fever, livestock maintenance, transportation, flood control, and...
Dates:
1822-1936
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- Assumption Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
- Contracts for deeds -- Louisiana. 1
- County councils -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County councils -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County councils -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
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- County officials and employees -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County officials and employees -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County officials and employees -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- County ordinances -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County ordinances -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County ordinances -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- County school systems -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County school systems -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County school systems -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- County services -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County services -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County services -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Elections -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Elections -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Lafourche Parish (La.) 1
- Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
- Louisiana -- Social life and customs. 1
- Marriage records -- Louisiana 1
- Political participation -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Political participation -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Political participation -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Public health -- United States -- Louisiana 1
- Rural health -- Louisiana 1
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Slavery -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Taxation -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Taxation -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Taxation -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
- Volunteer fire companies -- Louisiana 1
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- Works Projects Administration. 1
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