New Roads, Louisiana

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New Roads is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish.

History
Le Poste de Pointe Coupée (“The Pointe Coupee Post”) is one of the oldest communities in the Mississippi Valley. The post was founded in the 1720s by settlers from France. The post was located upstream from the point crossed by the explorers, immediately above but not circled by False River. The name was linked to the area along the Mississippi northeast of what is now New Roads. The post was settled by French coming from France and French Creoles as well as Africans coming from the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique and Santo Domingo, the west part of Hispaniola), later by French coming from Paris via Fort de Chartres, Illinois.

In 1768-1769, fifteen French families left the Pointe Coupee Post and settled in the Attakapas Post (today St Martinville, LA). The post was later settled by African-Americans, Anglo-Saxons and Italians.

Websites

 * City of New Roads
 * New Roads Interactive Map
 * Pointe Coupee Tourism
 * Pointe Coupee at the Millennium Documentary Photography Project
 * Pointe Coupee Chamber of Commerce