Cameron Parish French: Paroisse de Cameron   Cameron Parish Louisiana is the largest land area in the state of Louisiana. A true sportsman paradise it is comprised of 26 miles of beaches, many  miles of waterways, and four wildlife refuges. Cameron Parish was originally called Leesburg. On March 16, 1870, by Legislative Act , the new parish of Cameron was created. It was carved from the southern part of Calcasieu and from the southwestern comer of Vermilion Parish. It is unknown how Cameron parish came by it's name. According to a aricle published in the "New York Sun," states  "The Hon. Samuel P. Henry, 'father of Cameron Parish' ...gave it the name of Cameron in honor of his friend, Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania." Unincorporated Towns Cameron Hackberry Holly Beach Johnson Bayou Grand Lake Grand Chenier Creole Big Lake Adjacent parishes Calcasieu Parish (northwest) Jefferson Davis Parish (northeast) Vermilion Parish (east) Gulf of Mexico (south) Jefferson County, Texas (southwest) Orange County, Texas (west)	Welcome to this Louisiana Genealogy Trails Website. This is a new site, fashioned after our successful Illinois Trails websites, and we hope to soon add data here that can help Louisiana researchers as much as we've been able to help our Illinois researchers. We need some help to do that though - volunteers to host these county websites. If you can make a basic webpage, and you have a desire to transcribe data for the free use of all researchers, we can use your talents! Review our Volunteer Information and email Kim. In the meantime, join our mailing list to be kept apprised of updates to this website.     Online Data We intend to put data from all these categories online eventually. Feel free to contribute your data to this site to help it grow!   Louisiana is organized by Parish rather than County We need Parish Hosts! Email Kim if you want to help us to keep online Genealogy free! Acadia Parish Madison Parish Allen Parish Morehouse Parish Ascension Parish Natchitoches Parish Assumption Parish Orleans Parish Avoyelles Parish Ouachita Parish Beauregard Parish Plaquemines Parish Bienville Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Bossier Parish Rapides Parish Caddo Parish Red River Parish Calcasieu Parish Richland Parish Caldwell Parish Sabine Parish Cameron Parish St. Bernard Parish Catahoula Parish St. Charles Parish Claiborne Parish St. Helena Parish Concordia Parish St. James Parish DeSoto Parish St. John The Baptist Parish East Baton Rouge Parish St. Landry Parish East Carroll Parish St. Martin Parish East Feliciana Parish St. Mary Parish Evangeline Parish St. Tammany Parish Franklin Parish Tangipahoa Parish Grant Parish Tensas Parish Iberia Parish Terrebonne Parish Iberville Parish Union Parish Jackson Parish Vermilion Parish Jefferson Davis Parish Vernon Parish Jefferson Parish Washington Parish Lafayette Consolidated Government Webster Parish Lafourche Parish West Baton Rouge Parish LaSalle Parish West Carroll Parish Lincoln Parish West Feliciana Parish Livingston Parish Winn Parish
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