West Baton Rouge Parish [French: Paroisse de Baton Rouge Ouest ]    It was one of the Florida Parishes  named Baton Rouge Parish. Then it was divided into East and West Baton Rouge with the river being the dividing line between the two parishes.. Early land records date the parish to 1763 as part of the Louisiana Purchase territory. The Parish of Baton Rouge was created in 1807 as part of the Territory of New Orleans and named in 1810 in order to distinguish it from the eastern parish on the opposite bank of the river. The parish seat is Port Allen. West Baton Rouge was first settled by Acadian exiles, who recognized the value of the Mississippi and the rich soil here. Largely an agricultural parish until the 1960s, the parish is now home to one of the largest deep-water ports in the world.   Cities and towns Addis Brusly Erwinville Port Allen Adjacent parishes West Feliciana Parish (north) East Baton Rouge Parish (east) Iberville Parish (southwest) Pointe Coupee Parish (northwest)	Welcome to this Louisiana Genealogy Trails Website. 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 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! 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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