Ascension Parish, LA

ASCENSION PARISH, La., situated toward the southeast part of the state, and traversed by Mississippi river. Area -------- . The surface is level, and annually overflowed; the soil fertile and well-suited for cotton and sugar-cane. Courts are held at Donaldsonville. Pop., in 1840, 6,951; in 1850, 10,752.

Ascension Parish, La., c. h. at Donaldsonville. Southern part, on both sides of the Mississippi. It has on the N. the Amite, with which the Manshac pass from the Mississippi communicates. The La Fourche, another outlet of the Mississippi, leaves that river at Donaldsonville, in this parish. Level, and, except the lands on the immediate banks of the rivers, annually inundated.