Maringouin, Louisiana
- Name
- Maringouin, Louisiana
- Latitude
- 30.399630
- Longitude
- -90.091920
- County or Parish
- Iberville Parish, Louisiana
- State or Province
- Louisiana
- Country
- United States of America
- Description
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The village of Maringouin is located in northern Iberville Parish. Its northern border is the Pointe Coupee Parish line, and its eastern border is Bayou Grosse Tete. The village was established in 1882, when railroad service between New Orleans through Louisiana and across Texas opened.
The Bayou Maringouin is its most prominent feature, one mentioned in the records describing plantations owned by Jesse Batey and Henry Johnson. People sold by the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen in 1838 provided unpaid labor at Jesse Batey's plantation in Maringouin, which later became known as West Oak Plantation. Henry Johnson also owned a plantation in Maringouin on land adjacent to Batey's plantation.
The plantations of Jesse Batey (later renamed West Oak Plantation) and Henry Johnson (purchased from H.M. Thibodeau) were located near what is now known as Maringouin.
Maringouin is now a small town of approximately 1,100 people, 900 of whom can trace their ancestry to the people sold by the Jesuits to Jesse Batey. - Place Type
- City, Town, or Village
- Same As
- Maringouin, Louisiana (Wikipedia)
- Maringouin (Wikidata)
- Town of Maringouin (Official Website)
- Is Part of
- Iberville Parish, Louisiana
- Bibliographic Citation
- GSA191, Jenna Clifford, “Podcast: Education Across Generations” (Georgetown Slavery Archive)
- GSA444, Sara Phillips, “StoryMap: The GU272 in Louisiana: West Oak Plantation (2022)” (Georgetown Slavery Archive)
- Riffel, Judy, Iberville Parish History (Dallas: Curtis Media Corporation, 1985)
- GSA409, "Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Maringouin, Louisiana, 1919" (Georgetown Slavery Archive)
- Source Resource
- http://onthesegrounds.georgetown.domains/omeka/api/items/7219
Linked resources
Part of Maringouin, Louisiana