Iberville Parish was created on 1807 , from Assumption and Ascension Parishes and the parish was named in honor of an explorer named Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, the brother of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville . The Parish seat is Plaquemine .
It is borderd by Point Coupee Parish (northwest), West Baton Rouge Parish (north), East Baton Rouge Parish (northeast), Ascension Parish (east), Assumption Parish (southeast), Iberia Parish (south), St. Martin Parish (west) . Cites, Towns and Communities include Grosse Tete, Maringouin, Plaquemine, Rosedale, St. Gabriel, White Castle . Unincorporated areas of interest in the parish include Allemania, Augusta, Bayou Goula, Bayou Paul, Bayou Sorrel, Bruly Lacroix, Bruns, Carville, Catherine, Choctaw, Crescent, Goldridge, Grand River, Indian Village, Laurel Ridge, Lone Star,McWilliams, Musson, Myrtle Grove, Pecan Spur, Pigeon, St. Gabriel, Samstown, Soniat, Sunshine Post Offie, Texas Spur and Willow Glen. The Official County Website is located at http://www.ibervilleparish.com/ .
Iberville was “discovered” by French explorer Pierre LeMoyne, Sieur d’Iberville in 1699, but its rich delta soil and many waterways had been discovered by Indian tribes long before Iberville ever set foot here. While it was initially an agricultural area, Iberville has changed through the centuries to accommodate the changing times. The parish has always had plenty of sugarcane and soybean fields, but through the years the hardwood timber industry, river commerce and now industrial development have been essential to a thriving parish economy.
From the 1800s until the mid-1900s, Louisiana produced more sugar than any other state in the nation, and Iberville, as the state’s leading sugarcane producer, drew the name “Sweet Iberville.” By the late 1800s Bayou Plaquemine, running through the heart of Iberville, became the most common route from the Mississippi River into the interior of Louisiana, and this water traffic brought a boom in the parish’s timber and sawmill industries and a variety of commercial establishments catering to travelers. It also resulted in the construction of the historic Plaquemine Lock.
With the agricultural, timber, sawmill, and water commerce industries powering the economy, Iberville prospered into the 1960s, when the Lock was finally closed, replaced by a bigger structure closer to Baton Rouge. But by this time the chemical industry had realized the many advantages that Iberville offered with its access to the Mississippi River, interstate travel, electrical power and hard-working people. Today, the chemical and agriculture industries power the economy, and exist in harmony with the tourism industry.
The parish now has six municipalities - Plaquemine, the largest city and capital of the parish, St. Gabriel, White Castle, Rosedale, Grosse Tete and Maringouin. It is experiencing an economic burst, with several chemical and industrial plants announcing new plant start-ups and expansions totaling well over $1 billion. A parish rich in history, Iberville is also a parish moving into a new and dynamic chapter of its long life. See Extended History for More information.
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Iberville Parish Clerk of Court has Court Records from 1807 and Land Records from 1770 and Probate Records from 1807 has Marriage Records from 1770 and is located at 58050 Meriam Street, Plaquemine, LA 70764, P O Box 423, Plaquemine, LA 70765, (225) 687-5160, (225) 687-5260 Fax The Clerk of Court for each parish in Louisiana performs the functions of more than one office. As the Recorder, the office of the Clerk of Court receives, files, records and indexes all mortgages, conveyances and all other instruments recorded in the Public Records for the Parish. The Clerk’s Office receives and files all pleadings, such as petitions, answers, motions and other filings in Civil and Probate matters, as well as indictments, bills of information and other filings in Criminal matters. The Clerk’s Office also handles special Juvenile matters and Criminal Neglect cases. Another function of the Clerk’s Office is the issuance of Marriage Licenses and recording their returns after the marriages are performed.
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Parishwide Records: Federal Population Schedules that exist for Iberville Parish, Louisiana are 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 (fragment, see below), 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930. Other Federal Schedules to look at when researching your family tree in Iberville Parish, Louisiana are Industry and Agriculture Schedules availible for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Slave Schedules exist for 1850 & 1860. The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880.
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As early as 1860 the federal government began attempts to identify Native Americans. In 1900 and 1910 it created a special Indian schedule. The first page was the same as the population census only it had “Indian Population” as its heading. The second page provided for such important information as: tribal affiliation, the tribe of each parent, the person's Indian blood quantum, and—if not full blooded —their precise racial mixture. These schedules will be found at the end of the ward or district in which the Native American resided.
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1699
Bayougoula Indians inhabited what is now Iberville Parish when the first European explorers passed through this frontier area on the Mississippi River. In 1699, the French Canadian LeMoyne brothers, Pierre, Sieur dËIberville, and Jean Baptiste, Sieur de Bienville met these Indians on their first trip up the Mississippi River and were surprised to find evidence that LaSalle and Tonti had been there over a decade before. The explorers named the area District of Iberville.
1700
Father Paul DuRu, a Jesuit missionary, established the first church in Louisiana in 1700 near the Bayougoula village and labored to convert the Indians.
When the Europeans began to settle in the area, the Chitimachas were the most prominent Indians in the parish. They held a large part of the parish on the west bank of the Mississippi and had villages at Plaquemine, Indian Village, Belle River, and the largest at Donaldsonville.
1766
In 1762, France lost all her holdings in the New World including Louisiana, which was given to Spain to keep it from falling into British hands. Spain did not formally take possession of the colony until 1766, at which time they began to dispatch colonists, mainly Canary Islanders, throughout the lower Mississippi Valley. They also welcomed the exiled Acadians by providing them with land, farming implements, guns, livestock, food, and some other necessities. By 1767, several Acadian settlements had been established along the coast south of St. Gabriel.
1769
A 1769 census of the district showed 376 occupants. The early settlements of the Duvernay Concession at Bayou Goula in the 1720s and the Acadians at St. Gabriel on the east bank of the Mississippi River in 1767, established Iberville Parish as one of the oldest parishes in Louisiana. St. Gabriel d'Iberville was the largest colony in the district and one of the first three Acadian settlements in Louisiana. The Plaquemine area, however was not established until much later. At the time of the arrival of the Acadians at St. Gabriel, the only inhabitants of the west bank were the Indians, who called the bayou along which they lived "Piakimines." As the settlements in the Attakapas and Opelousas regions grew in importance, attention began to shift from the eastern half of Iberville Parish to that part west of the Mississippi. Travellers in Louisiana began to notice in the late 1700s and early 1800s that Bayou Plaquemine afforded a possible route to the fertile districts in lower Louisiana.
1805
When the Territory of Orleans is divided into counties the present-day Iberville Parish is part of Pointe Coupee County and Iberville County
1807
William C. C. Claiborne was inaugurated as the first governor of the Territory of Orleans, and in 1805, the Legislative Council divided the territory into twelve counties. In 1807, the second session of the Legislative Council formed nineteen parishes, including Iberville, but did not abolish the original twelve counties. Point Pleasant became the seat of government in 1807 and remained such until 1835 when it was moved to Plaquemine. The county system eventually died out, leaving only the parishes. Several acts of the Louisiana Legislature have been passed redefining the boundaries between Iberville and its neighboring parishes.
1827
In 1827, the settlements on Bayou Grosse Tete and Bayou Maringouin are taken from West Baton Rouge Parish and placed in Iberville because the Iberville Parish Courthouse was more easily accessible to the residents. The next year, a provision was made allowing the settlements to be returned to West Baton Rouge if that parish would build a road leading from the settlements to the West Baton Rouge Courthouse. The road was built, but the settlements remained in Iberville. The act of 1859 permanently settled the dispute between the two parishes by fixing these settlements in Iberville.
1837
In 1837, the boundary between the parishes of Iberville and Ascension was surveyed and in 1841, the first act was passed by the legislature establishing that boundary. Finally, the western boundary between Iberville and St. Martin Parishes was drawn in 1847.
1847
Finally, the western boundary between Iberville and St. Martin Parishes was drawn in 1847.
