New Roads
| New Roads, Louisiana | |
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| City | |
 Location of New Roads in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. |
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.svg) Location of Louisiana in the United States |
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| Coordinates: 30°41′47″N 91°26′20″W / 30.69639°N 91.43889°WCoordinates: 30°41′47″N 91°26′20″W / 30.69639°N 91.43889°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Pointe Coupee |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Robert Myer (D) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.58 sq mi (11.87 km2) |
| • Land | 4.58 sq mi (11.87 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 30 ft (9 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 4,831 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 4,673 |
| • Density | 1,019.86/sq mi (393.74/km2) |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 70760 |
| Area code(s) | 225 |
| FIPS code | 22-55105 |
| Website | http://www.newroads.net |
New Roads (historically French: Poste-de-Pointe-Coupée) is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The center of population of Louisiana is located in New Roads [1]. The population was 4,831 at the 2010 census, down from 4,966 in 2000. The city's ZIP code is 70760. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Le Poste de Pointe Coupée (“the Pointe Coupée Post” or Cut Point Post) is one of the oldest communities in the Mississippi River Valley established by European colonists. The trading post was founded in the 1720s by settlers from France. It was located upstream from the point crossed by explorers, immediately above but not circled by False River. The name referred to the area along the Mississippi River northeast of what is now New Roads.
The post was initially settled by native French, as well as French-speaking Creoles born in the colony. Additional ethnically French settlers migrated down the Mississippi River from Fort de Chartres, Upper Louisiana. The colonists imported numerous African slaves from the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Domingue), and many directly from Africa, as workers for the plantations.
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