Donaldsonville
Donaldsonville is a town of about 7000 in the south of Louisiana, along the Mississippi River. Its historic old town is considered to be one of the best kept examples of its kind, and home to a number of pre-Civil War monuments.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,730 residents
- Description: city in Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Ascension”, “Donaldsontown”, “Donaldsonville, LA”, “Donaldsonville, Louisiana”, “Donisonville”, “La Fourche”, and “La Ville De Donaldson”
- Postal code: 70346
Places of Interest
Highlights include River Road African American Museum and Landry Tomb.
River Road African American Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
River Road African American Museum is a museum of culture and history in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 1994, it was among the first Louisiana museums to tell the story of Africans and African Americans, both slave and free.
Landry Tomb
Tomb
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Landry Tomb is an historic burial vault located in the cemetery of the Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. The two stage granite monument, containing 24 vaults, was built in 1845 and its design is attributed to James H.
Ascension Catholic High School
School
Ascension Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. It is the oldest Catholic school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smoke Bend.
Smoke Bend
Hamlet
Smoke Bend is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. A small cottage from the 1870s named Rome House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located here.
Donaldsonville
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Ascension, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
30.1052° or 30° 6′ 19″ northLongitude
-90.9876° or 90° 59′ 15″ westPopulation
7,730Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
US DNAOpen location code
862F4246+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 151330992OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Donaldsonville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دونالدسونفيل”
- Basque: “Donaldsonville”
- Bulgarian: “Доналдсонвиле”
- Catalan: “Donaldsonville”
- Cebuano: “Donaldsonville”
- Chechen: “Дональдсонвилл”
- Chinese: “Donaldsonville”
- Chinese: “唐纳森维尔”
- Danish: “Donaldsonville”
- Dutch: “Donaldsonville”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دونالدسونفيل”
- French: “Donaldsonville”
- German: “Donaldsonville”
- Gilaki: “دانالدسنویل (لۊئيزيانا)”
- Gilaki: “دانالدسنویل”
- Haitian: “Donaldsonville, Lwizyana”
- Haitian: “Donaldsonville”
- Hungarian: “Donaldsonville”
- Irish: “Donaldsonville”
- Italian: “Donaldsonville”
- Japanese: “ドナルドソンビル”
- Korean: “도널드슨빌”
- Ladin: “Donaldsonville”
- Mazanderani: “دونالدسونویل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Donaldsonville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Donaldsonville”
- Norwegian: “Donaldsonville”
- Persian: “دونالدسونویل، لوئیزیانا”
- Persian: “دونالدسونویل”
- Polish: “Donaldsonville”
- Portuguese: “Donaldsonville”
- Russian: “Доналдсонвилл”
- Serbian: “Доналдсонвил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Donaldsonville, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Donaldsonville”
- South Azerbaijani: “دونالدسونویل، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Donaldsonville (Luisiana)”
- Spanish: “Donaldsonville”
- Swedish: “Donaldsonville”
- Tatar: “Дональдсонвилл”
- Turkish: “Donaldsonville, Louisiana”
- Turkish: “Donaldsonville”
- Ukrainian: “Дональдсонвілл”
- Uzbek: “Donaldsonville”
- Volapük: “Donaldsonville”
- Welsh: “Donaldsonville, Louisiana”
- Welsh: “Donaldsonville”
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