Republic of West Florida Historic Region

Florida Parishes
Region
Downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The Florida Parishes (Spanish: Parroquias de Florida, French: Paroisses de Floride), the eastern side of Mississippi River which is also known as the Northshore region or the Northlake region, are eight parishes in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana, which were part of West Florida in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Unlike most of Louisiana, this region was not part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, as it had been under British and then Spanish control for the prior forty years. The parishes are East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, and West Feliciana.

The United States annexed most of West Florida in 1810. It quickly incorporated the area that became the Florida Parishes into the Territory of Orleans, which became the U.S. state of Louisiana in 1812.

In 1990, the state of Louisiana formally designated the region "the Republic of West Florida Historic Region, or the Florida Parishes."

The area that became the Florida Parishes was at one time part of French Louisiana. Following the French and Indian War, however, the region, like most of the rest of French Louisiana east of the Mississippi River (excepting New Orleans), was transferred to Great Britain. The region became part of the British colonial province of West Florida.

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