Editing Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana (section)

==History==
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Pointe Coupee is the oldest settlement on the lower Mississippi, having been made by some wandering Canadian trappers as early as 1708. Bienville established this place as a military post, before the commencement of New Orleans. Settlers arrived in 1719, making it the third oldest settlement in Louisiana.  The fort was moved in 1722 to an area near the present St. Francisville Ferry landing.

After several floods, Governor [[Luis de Unzaga]] in 1772 moved the European settlement to a new post, the so-called Post Unzaga. Recently, historians Cazorla and Polo, from the Louis de Unzaga Historical Society research team, using satellite [[remote sensing]] techniques and comparative plans from the [[General Archive of the Indies]], have managed to locate the position of the Unzaga post, which included, along with it, a parish. After the slave rebellion of 1795 this settlement was left uninhabited.<ref>Cazorla, Frank, The governor Louis de Unzaga (1717-1793) Pioneer in birth of the United States of America and in Liberalism, Foundation Malaga, 2019, pages 58, 133</ref> 
Pointe Coupee Parish (originally and recently, informally pronounced ''pwahnt coo-pee'') was organized by European Americans in 1805 as part of the [[Territory of Orleans]] (statehood for [[Louisiana]] followed in 1812). It was originally called Pointe Coupee County, and was one of the original 12 counties of the Territory of Orleans. It was renamed as Pointe Coupee Parish in 1816. The original Pointe Coupee Parish included parts of present-day Iberville and West Baton Rouge Parishes. There were minor boundary adjustments with neighboring parishes up through 1852, when its boundaries stabilized.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goldbug.com/AniMap.html|title=AniMap Plus: County Boundary Historical Atlas|author=Gold Bug Software}}</ref>

In 2008, Pointe Coupee was one of the communities that suffered the most damage by [[Hurricane Gustav]].