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Index Abend, 267 Acadia County, 32 Acadia Plantation, 236, 271 Acadian architecture, 91–92, 155, 157, 158 Acadian Coast, 9, 17, 27, 30, 31, 32, 44, 66, 148, 254, 261, 272, 274, 276, 278, 287 Acadian settlers, 9, 17, 29, 31, 249, 274 Acolapissa Indians, 2, 240 Adams, Christopher, 248 Adams, David, 143 Addis, 223–24, 318 Addis, J. W., 244 Africa Plantation, 253, 254 African Americans: baptisms of, 47, 48, 246; benevolent societies of, 18–19, 129, 179, 254, 266, 272–73, 290, 311, 314; cemeteries of, 128, 190, 218, 246, 268, 290; churches of, 123, 138, 151, 190, 213, 222, 242, 246, 268, 276; inventions of, 75, 253–54; museums of, 172, 265–66; post–Civil War communities of, 45, 47–48, 127, 129–30, 146, 177, 221–22, 233, 246, 268, 269, 272; in public office, 13; schools of, 174, 235, 246, 266; as Union soldiers, 258. See also Free blacks and people of color; Freedmen; Slaves Agriculture: crops of, 66–71; plantation , 67; of settlers, 6–7, 23, 66– 67. See also Concessions; individual crops Aillet House, 217 Aime family, 275, 278, 281, 282 Aime, Valcour, 47, 152, 159, 175, 275, 279, 281, 282–83, 284, 287 Airline Highway, 44, 123, 125, 145, 311 Alcidesire Plantation, 285 Alexandre, C., and Brother’s Store, 135 Alhambra Plantation, 248 Alibamon Indians, 168, 197, 269 Alice Plantation, 271, 315 All Saints Day (Toussaint), 138 Allain, J. P., 214 Allain, Sosthène, 225 Allain, Théophile, 235 Allées, 78, 181 Allemania Plantation, 234 Allen, Henry W., 13, 216, 217 Allendale Plantation, 217 Almedia Plantation, 113 Ama, 48, 315 Amans, Jacques, 173 Amelie cottage, 332–33 American Sugar Cane League, 84 Amoco Oil Company, 117 Anchorage–Baton Rouge ferry, 213–14 Anchorage Plantation, 213–14 Ancient Domain Plantation, 170 Andrews, John, 234, 236, 249–50 Andry, Manuel, 11, 133 Angelina Plantation, 143 Anglo-Americans, 66, 75, 78, 96–97, 193, 206, 294 Anglo-Creole architecture, 97–98 Animal life, 103–6, 104, 169–70 Anse, defined, 20 323 324  Index L’Anse aux Outardes, 122 Antioch Baptist Church, 222, 291 Antonio Plantation, 219 Arcadia Plantation, 271 Arceneau, Irma, 271 Architectural styles; 91, 94; Acadian, 95–96; Anglo-American, 96–97; Anglo -Creole, 97–98; country store, 100; Creole, 20–21, 78, 92–95, 97; Native American, 91; of plantation houses, 26, 78; romantic, 99; of slave quarters, 27, 98; vernacular, 91, 100; West Indian, 91, 92–93. See also individual styles Arizona Plantation, 186 Arkansas (battleship), 211–12 Arkansas Post, 273, 300 Arlington crevasse, 201 Arlington Plantation, 201 Armant family, 275, 283 Armant, Jean, 288 Armant, Jean Baptiste, 283 Armant, Leopold, 283 Armant Plantation, 175, 283, 288 Arnous, René, 186 Arpent survey, 18, 45, 64, 65, 66, 77 L’Ascension, 261 Ascension Parish, 17, 19, 31, 44; plantations and towns of, 19, 172–86, 250– 269 Ascension Parish Tourist Center and Cajun Village, 174–75, 276 Ascension Plantation, 254, Ashland/Belle Helene Plantation, 19, 181–82, 252 Ashton Plantation, 304, 311, 312, 314 Atchafalaya Basin, 40, 226, 228, 261 Atkinson property, 267 Aubert, J. L., 295 Audubon, John James, 54, 192 Augsburg, 303 Augusta Plantation, 243, 244 Augustin Lasseigne House, 133 Aurelia Plantation, 290 Australia Plantation, 220 Australia Point, 222, 225, 226 Avery, W. H., 189 Avery Plantation, 189 Aymar, William, 271 Aymar Plantation, 271 Ayraud, Pierre, 236–37 Babin, Modeste, 253 Babin, Pierre, 188 Babin House, 221 Bacas, Alcide, 293 Bacas House, 293 “Back,” denoting location away from the river, 18 Bagasse, 86, 161, 166, 212 Bagatelle Plantation, 171 Bains Plantation, 220 Banes, Alex, 215 Barges, 49, 53, 60–61 Barkely, John, 312 Baron (settlement), 160 Baron, Pierre, 160 Barozza (Barrowza) Plantation, 212–13 Barrow, Alexander, 215 Barthel store and home, 190 Bartram, William, 193, 197 Baton Rouge, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 20, 27, 30, 32, 202, 205, 207; as capital of Louisiana, 9, 10, 12, 206–8; as capital of West Florida Republic, 9, 205; in Civil War, 10, 206; Indian mounds in, 202, 226; plantations and public sites in, 201–4; port and riverfront of, 205–7, 209. See also State capitol buildings Baton rouge (Native American boundary marker), 3, 32 Baton Rouge, Battle of (1779), 204–5 Baton Rouge, Battle of (1862), 208–9 Baton Rouge–Anchorage ferry, 213–14 Baton Rouge–San Michel ferry, 216 Batture, 42, 47, 101, 112, 226; defined, 18 Bay Tree Plantation, 279 Bayley’s Estate, 247 Bayou, defined, 18 Bayou Bourbeaux, 225, 226 Bayou Goula, 236, 237, 239–241...

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