Editing Ascension Parish, Louisiana (section)

== History ==
Early European settlers of the area that was developed as Ascension and Gonzales were, for the most part, of [[French people|French]] and [[Spanish people|Spanish]] ancestry. They settled among the [[Houma people|Houma Indians]] who lived in the area.

Among the projects and plans carried out by [[Luis de Unzaga]] 'le Conciliateur' while he was governor of Louisiana between 1769 and 1777 was the promotion of new settlements by Europeans, among them were French [[Acadians]] and [[Malaga]] in the fertile [[Mississippi]] region and more specifically in the Unzaga Post or 'Puesto de Unzaga' that he created in 1771 in [[Pointe Coupee]], the parish of [[St. Gabriel, Louisiana|Saint Gabriel]] in 1773 and Fort [[Manchac]] in 1776; the Ascension people occupied land at the confluence of the aforementioned European settlements.<ref>Cazorla, Frank (2019) The governor Louis de Unzaga (1717-1793) Pioneer in the Birth of the United States of America and in Liberalism. Foundation Malaga, pages 48-56, 64-72, 83</ref>

During the historic [[2016 Louisiana Floods]], around one-third of all homes in Ascension Parish were flooded; 15,000 homes and businesses took on water, mostly in the Galvez-St. Amant area, prompting a visit to St. Amant by then-presidential candidate, [[Donald J. Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_873dd256-6303-11e6-ae03-1fa2840fc417.html|title = Ascension officials: 15,000 homes, busineses &#91;sic&#93; flooded so far; levee overtopped}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/louisiana_flood_2016/article_c30c8178-661a-11e6-81c9-3f4b02af0c03.html|title = Donald Trump, Mike Pence meet Louisiana flood victims, tour hard-hit Baton Rouge neighborhoods}}</ref>