Bayou Sara, Louisiana
| St. Francisville, Louisiana | |
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 One of several former plantation houses near St. Francisville
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | West Feliciana |
| Elevation | 115 ft (35.1 m) |
| Coordinates | 30°47′05″N 91°22′50″W / 30.78472°N 91.38056°WCoordinates: 30°47′05″N 91°22′50″W / 30.78472°N 91.38056°W |
| Area | 1.8 sq mi (4.7 km2) |
| - land | 1.8 sq mi (5 km2) |
| - water | 0.0 sq mi (0 km2), 0% |
| Population | 1,712 (2000) |
| Density | 936.6/sq mi (361.6/km2) |
| Established | 1809 |
| Mayor | Billy D'Aquilla |
| Timezone | CST (UTC-6) |
| - summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code | 225 |
  Location of St. Francisville in Louisiana
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 Location of Louisiana in the United States
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St. Francisville is a town in and the parish seat of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,712 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.
St. Francisville is located at 30°47′5″N 91°22′50″W / 30.78472°N 91.38056°W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km²), all land.
The town of St. Francisville was established in 1809, and a number of historic structures from that period still exist. Called "the town two miles long and two yards wide" because it was developed atop a narrow ridge overlooking the Mississippi River, it was the commercial and cultural center of the surrounding plantation country. Below St. Francisville's bluffs, another early settlement called Bayou Sara had been established in the early 1790s, and was at one time the largest antebellum Mississippi River port between New Orleans and Memphis. Destroyed by repeated flooding and fires, nothing exists of Bayou Sara today, but a few of its structures were hauled up the hill into St. Francisville in the 1920s.
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