Gazetteer/Almanac
Headnote
SAINT MARY'S PARISH, situated on the south boundary of Louisiana, with the gulf of Mexico on the south, and Chetimachea lake on the northeast. Area, 870 square miles. Seat of justice, Franklin. Pop. in 1830, 6,442; in 1840 8,950; in 1850, 13,700. (Fanning's, 1853)