U.S. Territorial Period Archives

6.10 a.–b. Acadians in Colonial Louisiana

The Acadians, ancestors of present-day Cajuns, were people of French ancestry who settled in what is now Canada before migrating to Louisiana.

Shane K. Bernard

Government, Politics & Law

Adams-Onís Treaty

The treaty that settled the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase was ratified by the governments of Spain and the United States in 1821.

Michael Wise

Art

Adolph Rinck

Adolph Rinck settled in New Orleans around 1840 where he was a successful portrait and miniature painter, art teacher, and sketch artist.

Richard Anthony Lewis

Art

Ambrose Duval

French artist Ambrose Duval achieved success as a miniature portrait painter in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.

Kate Carter

While Louisiana began as a French colony and its dominant culture remained Creole French well into the nineteenth century, Anglo-Americans began to form a significant minority in region the late colonial period.

Lo Faber

Architecture

Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church Cemetery

This Catholic cemetery in Donaldsonville was laid out in a grid plan shortly after the church parish was founded in 1772.

Karen Kingsley

Architecture

Audubon State Historic Site

During John James Audubon’s four month tenure at Oakley Plantation as tutor to Eliza Pirrie, he produced thirty-two of his bird paintings.

Karen Kingsley

Architecture

Barthélémy Lafon

Barthélémy Lafon enjoyed a long and diverse career in Louisiana as an architect, builder, engineer, surveyor, cartographer, town planner, land speculator, publisher, and pirate.

Ann Masson