Village of NAPOLEONVILLE

Napoleonville was first settled by French and Spanish in 1750 and was later named by a French settler who had fought under Napoleon. The present courthouse dates from 1896 and replaced earlier structures destroyed by fires which swept the town in 1884 and 1894. The Southern Pacific Railroad came through in 1890.


Type of Government: Mayor and Bd. of Alderman (3) Lawrason Act
Police: 2 officers.
Fire Department: 30 vol.
Fire Rating: 6 in city.
Health Care: Assumption General Hospital
Recreation & Culture: Madewood plantation has tours and bed and breakfast facilities. Attakapa Landing was once an Indian village belonging to the only known cannibals in the area.
Unincorporated areas of interest in the parish include Pierre Part and Belle River in the western part of the parish and several communities along Bayou Lafourche:
Paincourtville-According to tradition the village received its name from an early traveler, who in passing through was unable to obtain a single loaf of bread and therefore facetiously called the place ³short-of-bread-town.²
Labadieville-Thought to have been the site of the chief village of the Washi Indians, one of four tribes mentioned by Bienville when he explored the area in 1699.