Belle Alliance, Louisiana

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Belle Alliance
Location of Belle Alliance in Louisiana
Coordinates: 30°6′0″N90°59′39″W / 30.10000°N 90.99417°W / 30.10000; -90.99417
CountryUnited States
StateLouisiana
Parish Assumption
Area
  Total2.5 sq mi (6 km2)
  Land2.5 sq mi (6 km2)
  Water0.0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation
26 ft (8 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 225

Belle Alliance is an unincorporated community in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Pierre Part Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Belle Alliance is named after the Belle Alliance Plantation [1] located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche in Assumption Parish, about five miles (8 km) out of Donaldsonville. During the 1770s, this 7,000-acre (28 km2) plot was granted to Don Juan Vives, a physician and military officer of the Spanish government. [2] The actual Belle Alliance Plantation was built by a successful sugar planter Charles Anton Kock, also owner of St. Emma Plantation around 1846. [3]

Today, the site is known as the community of Belle Alliance. The plantation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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References

  1. Leeper, Clare D'Artois (October 19, 2012). Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries. LSU Press. p. 38. ISBN   978-0-8071-4740-5.
  2. www.rootsweb.com "BELLE ALLIANCE PLANTATION"
  3. www.discoverourtown.com "Belle Alliance Plantation"