Place:Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana, United States

Watchers
  • no watchers
Larger map


NameDonaldsonville
Alt namesAscensionsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22005424
Donaldsontownsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22005424
Donisonvillesource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22005424
La Fourchesource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22005424
La Ville De Donaldsonsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22005424
TypeTown
Coordinates30.1°N 90.994°W
Located inAscension, Louisiana, United States
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Donaldsonville (historically ) is a city in, and the parish seat of Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located along the River Road of the west bank of the Mississippi River, it is a part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. At the 2020 U.S. census, it had a population of 6,695, down from 7,436 in 2010.

Donaldsonville's historic district has what has been described as the finest collection of buildings from the antebellum era to 1933, of any of the Louisiana river towns above New Orleans.[1] Union forces attacked the city, occupying it and several of the river parishes beginning in 1862. Fort Butler was built on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The fort was successfully defended on June 28, 1863, against a Confederate attack. This battle was one of the first occasions when free blacks and fugitive slaves fought as soldiers on behalf of the Union. The fort is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

After the war, in 1868 Donaldsonville residents elected as mayor Pierre Caliste Landry, an attorney and Methodist minister; he was the first African American to be elected as mayor in the United States.

[edit]

History and Culture

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia


[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Donaldsonville, Louisiana. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Donaldsonville%2C_Ascension%2C_Louisiana%2C_United_States"