OTHER TOWNSHIPS FOUNDED DURING THE PERIOD WERE IN PASCAGOU areas along the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers, and along the coast of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. (26)

PROBABLY THE FIRST GERMAN SETTLEMENT WAS FOUNDED BY 21 families who came to the colony aboard the ships, "Les Deux Freres," in 1721. The name of the village was called "Ie premier ancien village allemand." (27)

Originally, two farming villages were formed and the district to which these two villages belonged was called, "La Cote des Allemands," or "Aux Allemands."  Since 1802, this area has been called St. Charles am St. John the Baptist Parishes. (28)

However, records show that in 1721, a great hurricane devastated the area, having no levee on the Mississippi River, and many settlers moved from the original two villages to higher ground.

OTHER GERMAN VILLAGES GIVEN FRENCH NAMES WERE, " COLASPISA;", "L'Ance Aux Outardes," "les Cannes," and "Brulees." These towns were located on the right bank of the Mississippi River above New Orleans. (30)

These towns mentioned were in the present vicinity of towns today known as Reserve, LaPlace, Gramercy, Lutcher, Norco, and Lions. Lions is now extinct.

A LEADER OF THE GERMAN COAST:

FOR A SMALL GATHERING OF COLONISTS TO MAKE A LIVING AT FAR and other occupations upon arriving along the German Coast, there were several leaders noted in writings who aided in the establishment of villages, or, who

26 Ibid.,p. 38,21
27 s.C. Arthur and others. Old Families of Louisiana.
Harmanson Publishing Company, New Orleans, La., 1931, p. 1
28 Deiler, p. 29
30 Ibid., pp. 45-46

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