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It hired local French soldiers, surveyors and doctors, many of whom eventually settled in the area. Many of the French people who settled Avoyelles Parish immigrated from France in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Avoyelles Parish was created on 1807, as an Original Parish and the parish was named in honor of the Avoyel Native American people. The Parish seat is Marksville. There was records destruction in 1856? from unknown causes. Native Americans were the first residents of the part of Louisiana now known as Avoyelles Parish. When the first white man arri...
As reported by the Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 866 square miles (2,240 km2), of which 832 square miles (2,150 km2) is land and 33 square miles (85 km2) (3.8%) is water. Avoyelles parish is located close to the center of Louisiana. Part of the Grand Cote National Wildlife Refuge and the Lake Ophelia National Wildlife Refuge are loc...
All primary public schools are run by the Avoyelles Parish School Board. It operates 10 schools with an enrollment over 6,000 students.
In the 18th century, they were one of the nations living along the Red River, having their villages near its mouth, within what is now Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. They probably belonged to the Caddoan family, the tribe representing a group that had remained near the ancient habitat of its kindred.
Avoyelles Parish, at the crossroads of Central Louisiana, takes its name from Avoyels Indians who inhabited the area. The Avoyels were later absorbed by the Tunica Biloxi tribe. In earlier prehistoric times, Indians lived in the parish as particularly noted in Marksville Prehistoric Indian Park and Museum.
But, few families in Avoyelles are of Acadian descent. In the 1800s until the mid 1900s, local Confederate units and local newspaper reports in The Villager always referred to the Avoyelles French families as Creoles, the term then for native-born people of French descent.
They probably belonged to the Caddoan family, the tribe representing a group that had remained near the ancient habitat of its kindred. The country occupied by the Avoyelles was fertile and intersected by lakes and bayous, one of the latter being still called by their name.
Some current place names, including Atchafalaya, Natchitouches (now spelled Natchitoches), Caddo, Houma, Tangipahoa, and Avoyel (Avoyelles), are from Native American dialects. Several native tribes inhabited the region (using current parish boundaries to describe approximate locations):
