Tag: Church Point
Church Point (French: Pointe-à-l’Église) is a town in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 4,756 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area.
In the late 18th century, French settlers from Quebec, Canada created clearings by burning the underbrush, leaving what they called “a brûlé”. “A brûlé” is a “burn”, much as the Native Americans in the area had created a “burn” to promote new grass to attract bison and other grazing and browsing animals.
One of these clearings was created on a slough off of Bayou Mermentau, near where the slough came to a point. This new clearing became known as Plaquemine Brûlé in 1843 when Etienne d’Aigle III, a descendant of immigrants from Quebec, became the first settler in the area, which at that time was in the middle of Opelousas Parish (later St. Landry Parish), which stretched from the Atchafalaya River to the Sabine River.
Plaquemine is an Atakapa word for the native Louisiana persimmon. The…
