source"Wikipedia" Grant Parish Grant Parish was one of the "Reconstruction" parishes of Northwest Louisiana. It was created out of the Southern part of Winn Parish and the northern part of Rapides Parish. The name "Grant" applies in honor of U. S. Grant, by Act 82 of March 4, 1869, The parish seat is named for Grant's first vice president, Schuyler M. Colfax of Indiana.(The Democrats of the local area did not like the idea of their parish being named after a northern General and declared that the Parish of Grant was named after R. H. Grant who was a cabin-boy on one of the steamboats which ran the Red River. This boy later worked himself into the position of Captain of the Packet U and I which ran the Red River from Alexandria to Jefferson, Texas—only the most skilled captains were qualified to operate in the upper Red River waters.) Source: By Louis R. Nardini, Sr. Cities and towns Colfax Dry Prong Georgetown Montgomery Pollock Adjacent parishes Winn Parish (north) La Salle Parish (east) Rapides Parish (south) Natchitoches Parish (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. My name is Janice, and I am your host for Louisiana. If you would like to submit data for this site, please email me with your submissions. Happy Trails to you on your quest for your ancestors. 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! ONLINE NOW   Coming Soon                   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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