Napoleonville is the parish seat for Assumption Parish
Belle Rose is in Assumption Parish
Assumption Parish(14) ► ADJACENT TO ASSUMPTION PARISH Ascension Parish(70) ► Iberia Parish(74) ► Iberville Parish(32) ► Lafourche Parish(71) ► St. James Parish(28) ► St. Martin Parish(42) ► St. Mary Parish(46) ► Terrebonne Parish(32) ►
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"Where we love is home—
home that our feet may leave
but not our hearts."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Founded by
Gustave Joseph De La Barre
Circa 1900 — — Map (db m85518) HM
Israel Baptist School. In 1872, Reverend Osborne Dickerson and the First Israel B. C. congregation organized the Baptist Church School on this site to provide formal education for African American children. In 1877, Assumption Parish School . . . — — Map (db m86041) HM
Founded under Spanish rule c. 1778 by Canary Islanders, later joined by Acadians and others. Post believed to have been on site of "Belle Alliance Plantation," 841 acre grant to Don Juan Vives, early Spanish physician, officer in the Galvez . . . — — Map (db m86034) HM