Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville

has been an essential part of the settlement and commercial development of St. Martinville. The word “teche” may be derived from the Chitimacha word for “snake”, and some say the Great River will one day avenge the serpent. The term recalls the pre-colonial history of the land, where near present-day city limits there was an Attakapas Indian settlement. When the first census of the then Attakapas district was taken in 1766 there were already 40 Acadian and Creole households. During this time Louisiana’s French rulers allocated land for the raising of cattle to supply meat for New Orleans, additionally sugar cane production fueled the growth of the region. The original land grant issued to Jean-Antonie Dauterive was eventually seized and divided between other landowners, with the St. Martin de Tours Church remaining intact and providing the city’s namesake. When St. Martinville was still part of the French colony of Louisiana many slaves from the Senegambian region, St. Louis, and Goree Island provided essential knowledge of agricultural technology, which was used to produce crops in the hot summer months. Spanish and French colonial law provided the means for a number of slaves to obtain freedom; this group came to form a prosperous class of farmers, tradesmen, and business people. By the 1850s nearly half of the free people of color living in the St. Martinville parish were urbanites, where in the city they were involved in the building trades. Their story is highlighted by…

He stopped between Isle-aux-Chats (now Cat Island) and Isle Surgeres (renamed Isle-aux-Vascular or Ship Island) on February 13, 1699 and continued his explorations to the mainland, with his brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville to Biloxi. He built a precarious fort, called 'Maurepas' (later 'Old Biloxi'), before returning to France. He returned twice in the Gulf of Mexico and established a fort at Mobile in 1702. A major French settlement lay on the island of Hispaniola, where France…

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