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    The Florida Parishes, on the east side of the Mississippi River—an area also known as the Northshore or Northlake region—are eight parishes in the southeastern...
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    Spanish colonial periods and is connected to ecclesiastical parishes. Thirty-eight parishes are governed by a council called a police jury. The remaining...
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    civil parishes (equivalent to counties elsewhere in the U.S.) that comprised the former Republic of West Florida are known today as the Florida Parishes. This...
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    East and West Florida. The portions of West Florida now located in Louisiana are known as the Florida Parishes. The Republic of West Florida Historical Museum...
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    Area. It is one of what are called the Florida Parishes, at one time part of West Florida. Tangipahoa Parish was created by Louisiana Act 85 on March...
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    for his goodness. Among the nine Louisiana parishes (counties) named for "saints" (see "List of parishes in Louisiana"), St. Tammany is the only one...
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    the United States History of Louisiana List of parishes in Louisiana Florida Parishes Spanish West Florida Orleans Territory's at-large congressional district...
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    Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and the Florida Parishes of Louisiana. Spain based its claim to this vast area on several wide-ranging...
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    United States in the West Florida Controversy. At its greatest extent, the colony included what are now the Florida Parishes of Louisiana, the southernmost...
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    Republic of West Florida, an unrecognized republic declared in 1810. Part of the Florida Parishes today. Republic of East Florida, an unrecognized republic...
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    Mississippi and the Florida Parishes of Louisiana. After the ratification of the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1821 the United States combined East Florida and what had...
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    considered part of the Florida Parishes, at one time part of Spain's West Florida colony. The parish was part of Feliciana Parish, which was founded and...
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    Its parish seat is the town of Livingston. Livingston Parish is one of the Florida Parishes, a region which, unlike the rest of the state, was part...
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    is concentrated in southern Louisiana in the Greater New Orleans, Florida Parishes, and Acadiana regions, with the remainder in North and Central Louisiana's...
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    the Florida Parishes. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,463. Its parish seat is Franklinton. Its largest city is Bogalusa. The parish was founded...
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    divided into 64 parishes, which are analogous to counties in other states. There are various forms of government being used within the parishes. "East Baton...
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  • County, New York Florida, Ohio Florida City, Florida Florida Creek, in Missouri Florida Parishes, Louisiana, which came from West Florida and were not part...
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  • Justin Wilson (chef) (category People from Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana)
    was born in Roseland near Amite, the seat of Tangipahoa Parish, one of the "Florida Parishes" of southeastern Louisiana. He was the second-youngest of...
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  • of central Louisiana, as well as the northern part of Louisiana's Florida parishes in southeastern Louisiana, taking in Monroe, Alexandria, Amite and...
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    into 64 parishes (the equivalent of counties in most other states). List of parishes in Louisiana Louisiana census statistical areas Most parishes have an...
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    The parish was created in 1810. St. Helena Parish is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan area. The parish is one of the eight Florida Parishes, a region...
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  • was virtually coterminous with the Florida Parishes. In 1974, the 6th congressional district shed St. Tammany Parish to the 1st congressional district...
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    Development (DOTD) in order to highlight the unique history of Louisiana's Florida Parishes. Louisiana is in the process of widening I-12 to three lanes in each...
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  • Luke Letlow (category People from Richland Parish, Louisiana)
    most of 24 parishes, and includes Alexandria and Monroe, the population hubs, and Opelousas in Acadiana and Bogalusa in the Florida Parishes. Despite the...
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  • Louisiana include: Acadiana Cajun Heartland River Parishes Central Louisiana (Cen-La) Florida Parishes "French Louisiana" (Acadiana and Greater New Orleans)...
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  • 1810. The Florida Parishes of the modern state of Louisiana include most of the territory claimed by the short-lived Republic of West Florida. Spain sided...
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    Rouge), is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in the Florida Parishes region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical...
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    Acadiana (category Geography of Acadia Parish, Louisiana)
    as Cajuns or Creoles. Of the 64 parishes that make up the U.S. state of Louisiana, 22 named parishes and other parishes of similar cultural environment...
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    at Blues.gr, 2012 Ben Sandmel, From Country to City: Blues in the Florida Parishes and Baton Rouge: article containing interview with Otheneil "Hideaway...
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  • powers, with the most prominent example being the area known as the Florida Parishes, north of Lake Pontchartrain and east of the Mississippi River. This...
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