Concordia Parish (; ) is a

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that borders the Mississippi River in eastern central

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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,687. The

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is Vidalia. The parish was formed in 1807. Concordia Parish is part of the

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, MS–LA Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is historically considered part of the

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, devoted to cotton cultivation as a commodity crop, in contrast to the sugar cane crop of southern Louisiana. Other Louisiana parishes of similar character are East and West Carroll, Madison and Tensas, all in this lowlying delta land. On the east side of the Mississippi River is the Natchez District around the city of

Natchez, Mississippi Natchez ( ) is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,520 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisiana, Natchez was ...

.John C. Rodrigue, ''Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862--1880'', LSU Press, 2001, p. 176

History

Prehistory

Concordia Parish was the home to many successive Native American cultures for thousands of years before European encounter. Peoples of the

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Troyville culture The Troyville culture is an archaeological culture in areas of Louisiana and Arkansas in the Lower Mississippi Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United St ...

Coles Creek culture Coles Creek culture is a Late Woodland archaeological culture in the Lower Mississippi valley in the Southeastern Woodlands. It followed the Troyville culture. The period marks a significant change in the cultural history of the area. Population ...

and

Plaquemine culture The Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture (circa 1200 to 1700 CE) centered on the Lower Mississippi River valley. It had a deep history in the area stretching back through the earlier Coles Creek (700-1200 CE) and Troyville cultures ...

built villages and earthwork mound sites throughout the area. Notable examples include

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DePrato Mounds Deprato Mounds (Smithsonian trinomial, 16 CO 37), also known as the ''Ferriday Mounds'', is a multi-mound archaeological site located in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. The site shows occupation from the Troyville culture, Troyville period to the Co ...

Frogmore Mound Site Frogmore Mound Site ( 16 CO 9) is an archaeological site of the Late Coles Creek culture in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. The site is located west of Ferriday on US 84. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 2004. ...

, and

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. Historic Native American tribes encountered by early French explorers and colonists were the following:

Historic era

Concordia was named by Anglo-American settlers for a

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word meaning "harmony". They came mostly after the

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of 1803, when the United States took over this formerly French colonial area west of the Mississippi. Like other parishes of the lands along the Mississippi River, in the antebellum era, the parish was developed for cotton cultivation on large plantations. The labor-intensive crop was profitable because of the labor of enslaved African Americans. In 1789, Don Jose Vidal a resident of Natchez, MS and later the founder of the city of

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asked for land grants to move his family from Natchez to the other side of the Mississippi River. In Natchez, there was a mansion built called

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, this was a residence lived in by Spanish governors. Vidal moved his family across the Mississippi River to the Louisiana side after the time era of the US began. The Mansion started the name "Concord" and ultimately later led to the birth of what would be Concordia Parish. During the year of 1804, a ceremony of transfer was held and the citizens and Mayor of Natchez crossed over to the Louisiana side of the Mississippi to honor the new land that was founded. The Mansion was later struck by fire in the early 20th century (1901) and burned down.

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also lived on both sides of the land. "Concordia County" was a creation of the first Legislative Council held in New Orleans on December 2, 1804. Its territory that included parts of the present parishes of East Carroll, Madison, and Tensas. Land between the Mississippi, Red, Black, and Tensaw rivers comprised the early local administration of Concordia. Because Concordia's alluvial soil was unusually productive for cotton growing, it attracted large plantations, whose owners enslaved a very high number of people. In 1860, slaves made up 91 percent of Concordia Parish's residents, the highest percentage of any Louisiana parish. Only two counties in the United States —

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and Issaquena counties in

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— had a higher percentage of its population enslaved. As might be expected, the small number of white cotton planters in Concordia were fierce defenders of chattel slavery and strongly backed the Confederacy during the

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Law and government

The current elected sheriff is David Hedrick. Concordia Parish is a bellwether for the state of Louisiana, consistently reflecting the state's presidential election outcomes since 1964. The parish trends Democratic for local offices. For national offices, the majority has favored Republican candidates. In the 2008

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election, the Democrat

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received 3,766 votes (39.5 percent) in Concordia Parish to 5,668 (59.5 percent) for the Republican

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. In 2004, Concordia Parish cast 5,427 votes (60 percent) for President

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and 3,446 ballots (38 percent) for his Democratic rival, Senator

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Geography

According to the

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, the parish has a total area of , of which is land and (6.7%) is water. The parish is completely agricultural

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s. The

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runs along the west boundary, the Red River along the south, and the

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along the east. All three rivers are contained by large

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systems.

Major highways

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* U.S. Highway 84 * U.S. Highway 425 *

Louisiana Highway 15 Louisiana Highway 15 (LA 15) is a state highway located in central and northern Louisiana. It runs in a north–south direction from the junction of LA 1 and LA 970 in Lettsworth to the concurrent U.S. Highways 63 and 167 ...

* Louisiana Highway 566

Adjacent counties and parishes

Tensas Parish Tensas Parish () is a parish located in the northeastern section of the State of Louisiana; its eastern border is the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,147. It is the least populated parish in Louisiana. The parish ...

(north) * Adams County,

(northeast) * Wilkinson County,

(east) *

West Feliciana Parish West Feliciana Parish (French: ''Paroisse de Feliciana Ouest''; Spanish: ''Parroquia de Feliciana Occidental'') is a civil parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 15,310. The parish seat is St. F ...

(southeast) *

Pointe Coupee Parish Pointe Coupee Parish ( or ; ) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,758. The parish seat is New Roads. Pointe Coupee Parish is part of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana Metropolitan Stati ...

(south) *

Avoyelles Parish Avoyelles () is a parish located in central eastern Louisiana on the Red River where it effectively becomes the Atchafalaya River and meets the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,693. The parish seat is Marksvil ...

(southwest) * Catahoula Parish (west)

National protected area

Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1992 to protect some of the last remaining, least-disturbed bottomland hardwood forest tracts in the Lower Mississippi Valley. These wooded wetlands, oxbow lakes, brakes, sloughs, and b ...

State protected area

* Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management Area

Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 18,687 people, 7,162 households, and 4,562 families residing in the parish.

2000 census

As of the

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of 2000, there were 20,247 people, 7,521 households, and 5,430 families residing in the parish. The population density was . There were 9,148 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the parish was 57.9%

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, 40.7%

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, 0.16% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.55% from other races, and 0.8% from two or more races. 1.2% of the population were

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or Latino of any race. There were 7,521 households, out of which 33.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.00% were

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living together, 19.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.80% were non-families. 25.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.12. In the parish the population was spread out, with 27.80% under the age of 18, 8.90% from 18 to 24, 25.60% from 25 to 44, 23.00% from 45 to 64, and 14.70% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.90 males. The median income for a household in the parish was $22,742, and the median income for a family was $28,629. Males had a median income of $27,453 versus $18,678 for females. The

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for the parish was $11,966. About 24.30% of families and 29.10% of the population were below the

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, including 42.00% of those under age 18 and 20.60% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Concordia Parish School Board Concordia Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The district serves residents of Concordia Parish, i.e. Vidalia, Ferriday, Ridgecrest, and Monterey. School uniforms The district r ...

operates public schools in the parish.

Libraries

The Concordia Parish Library has 3 branches and a bookmobile service for all citizens of Concordia Parish. *Ferriday Branch - 1609 Third Street, Ferriday, LA *Vidalia Branch - 408 Texas Street,

*Clayton Branch - 31451 HWY-15 Clayton, LA

History

The Concordia Parish Library is the second oldest Parish Library in Louisiana and the first of such to be tax-supported. The library began as a movement between the President of the Tri-Parish Community Organization who had obtained a community program and a State Librarian at the time,

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. The two held a dinner where they launched a library movement in Concordia Parish. The Ferriday Rotary Club and Police Jury along with the public worked with the Louisiana Library Commission on the project and in October 1928 the Concordia Parish Demonstration Library was opened. Citizens of the parish voted to implement a tax to ensure the library could continue to function after seeing the advantages provided by the library. The library moved in 1952 to its present-day main building site in

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. In that same year the interested clubs of Ferriday and the Parish Library, The Concordia Parish Police Jury turned the Community Center over to the Concordia Parish Library to be operated as a parish library for all citizens of Concordia under the supervision of the Concordia Parish Library Board.

Library Cards

The library serves the citizens who reside in the boundaries of Concordia Parish. Any person permanently residing in Concordia Parish can use the services of a library with a

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. There are two types of library cards offered: *Library Card: allows patrons to check out physical materials and use electronic services. This card requires two items of price of residents AND a

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. Card is issued without charge. *Online Registration: allows access to

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, public access, e-services, and downloadable databases.

National Guard

1086th Transportation Company of the 165th CSS (Combat Service Support) Battalion of the 139th RSG (Regional Support Group) is based in

Vidalia, Louisiana Vidalia is the largest city and the parish seat of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 4,299 as of the 2010 census. Vidalia is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The city of Natchez, Mississippi, lie ...

on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

Communities

City

* Vidalia (parish seat and largest municipality)

Towns

Ferriday Ferriday is a town in Concordia Parish, which borders the Mississippi River and is located on the central eastern border of Louisiana, United States. With a population of 3,511 at the 2010 census, it is an African-American majority town. The ...

* Clayton * Ridgecrest

Census-designated places

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Other unincorporated communities

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* Ashland * Black Hawk * Dunbarton * Eva * Fairview *

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* Mayna * New Era * West Ferriday

Notable people

Arts and entertainment

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, musician *

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, televangelist *

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, musician

Journalism

* Campbell Brown,

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-award-winning journalist,

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Anchor/host. *

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and

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commentator

Politics

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(1984–1988) and secretary of state (2005–2006) * Clifford Cleveland Brooks, planter in

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, represented Concordia Parish in the

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from 1924 to 1932. * James H. "Jim" Brown, state senator (1972–1980), Louisiana secretary of state (1980–1988), and insurance commissioner (1992–2000) * Charles C. Cordill, Louisiana state senator representing Concordia and Tensas parishes from 1884 to 1912 * Brenham C. Crothers, Ferriday cattleman; state senator from delta parishes from 1948 to 1952 and 1956−1960 * Bryant Hammett, state representative, 1992–2006 * Shelby M. Jackson, Education superintendent, 1948–1964 *

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(1858−1909), spent part of her childhood at ''Ravenswood Place'' plantation, in the vicinity of Lake St. John. *

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, late state representative (1960−1964) from

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had a second home on Lake St. John. * Dan Richey, state senator, 1980–1984 * Fred L. Schiele, state representative (1964−1968), Concordia Parish sheriff (1973−1980) * J. Robert Wooley, state

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(2000−2006); practiced law in Concordia Parish with James H. "Jim" Brown in late 1970s

References

External links

* Heinrich, P. V., 2008
''Woodville 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle.''
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History

Prehistory

Historic era

Law and government

Geography

Major highways

Adjacent counties and parishes

National protected area

State protected area

Demographics

2020 census

2000 census

Education

Libraries

History

Library Cards

National Guard

Communities

City

Towns

Census-designated places

Other unincorporated communities

Notable people

Arts and entertainment

Journalism

Politics

See also

References

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