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Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

Avoyelles (French: Paroisse des Avoyelles) is a parish located in central eastern Louisiana on the Red River where it effectively becomes the Atchafalaya River and meets the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,693.[1] The parish seat is Marksville.[2] The parish was created in 1807, with the name deriving from the French name for the historic Avoyel people, one of the local Indian tribes at the time of European encounter.[3]

Avoyelles Parish

 United States

 Louisiana

March 31, 1807

Avoyel Native Americans

Marksville

Marksville

866 sq mi (2,240 km2)

832 sq mi (2,150 km2)

33 sq mi (90 km2)  3.8%

39,693

46/sq mi (18/km2)

UTC−6 (Central)

UTC−5 (CDT)

5th

www.avoypj.org

Today the parish is the base of the federally recognized Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe, who have a reservation there. The tribe has a land-based gambling casino on their reservation. It is located in Marksville, the parish seat, which is partly within reservation land.

Interstate 49

U.S. Highway 71

Louisiana Highway 1

Louisiana Highway 29

Louisiana Highway 107

Cottonport Elementary

Bunkie Elementary

Lafargue Elementary

Marksville Elementary

Plaucheville Elementary

Riverside Elementary

Sacred Heart School, Moreauville

St. Anthony of Padua School, Bunkie

St. Joseph School, Plaucheville

St. Mary of the Assumption School, Cottonport

Avoyelles Public Charter School

National Guard[edit]

The 1020th Engineer Company (Vertical) of the 527th Engineer Battalion of the 225th Engineer Brigade is located in Marksville, Louisiana. The 1086TH Transportation Company of the 165TH CSS (Combat Service Support) Battalion of the 139TH RSG (Regional Support Group) resides in Bunkie, Louisiana.

Bunkie

(parish seat and largest municipality)

Marksville

historian, author of Avoyelles Parish: Crossroads of Louisiana[16]

Sue Eakin

early recording artist of traditional Cajun music.

Alcide "Blind Uncle" Gaspard

Marion Walter Jacobs. musician and harmonica player, elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Little Walter

Marksville

Ruth McEnery Stuart

a free man from Saratoga Springs, New York, was held for nearly 12 years as a slave in Avoyelles Parish after being kidnapped and sold before the American Civil War; he was freed in 1853 by New York and Marksville officials after being traced here. Published his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1854), which became a best-selling book. It was adapted as a 2013 film of the same name, which won Academy Awards.

Solomon Northup

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

Heinrich, P. V., 2008, Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Woodville 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle.

Snead, J., P. V. Heinrich, and R. P. McCulloh, 2002, Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Ville Platte 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle.

Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office

31°00′N 92°00′W / 31.00°N 92.00°W / 31.00; -92.00