New Roads, Louisiana
| New Roads, Louisiana | |
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Pointe Coupee |
| Elevation | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| 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 |
| Area | 4.6 sq mi (11.9 km2) |
| - land | 4.6 sq mi (12 km2) |
| - water | 0.0 sq mi (0 km2), 0% |
| Population | 4,831 (2010) |
| Density | 1,091.8/sq mi (421.5/km2) |
| Mayor | Robert Myer (D) |
| Timezone | CST (UTC-6) |
| - summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 70760 |
| Area code | 225 |
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| 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. The city's ZIP code is 70760. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Le Poste de Pointe Coupée (“The Pointe Coupee 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 ethnic French settlers migrated down from Fort de Chartres, Illinois. 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. Historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall discovered extensive French and Spanish documentation of the early slave trade, which provided more information than is usually available as to the ethnicity and names of individual slaves, all in the court house at New Roads. Using this and other research, she has produced "The Louisiana Slave Database and the Louisiana Free Database: 1719–1820," which is searchable on line.
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