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Washington Parish, Louisiana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
18historic places
—earliest paper
1819formed
45,463pop. 2020
197cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 18 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Franklinton, Bogalusa, Mt. Hermon.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Louisiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Washington titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

15 of 18 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

18 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Babington, Robert H., HouseFranklintonBuilding1979
Babington, Thomas M., HouseFranklintonBuilding1995
Bogalusa City HallBogalusaBuilding1979
Bogalusa Coca Cola Bottling PlantBogalusaBuilding2019
Bogalusa Railroad StationBogalusaBuilding1980
Brumfield HomesteadFranklintonBuilding2014
Franklinton High SchoolFranklintonBuilding1998
Greenlaw HouseFranklintonBuilding1998
Hicks, Robert "Bob", HouseBogalusaBuilding2015
Knight CabinFranklintonBuilding1979
Magee, Nehemiah, HouseMt. HermonBuilding1982
Magee, Robert D., HouseAngieBuilding1982
Moore, Bouey, HomesteadFranklintonBuilding2009
Sullivan HouseBogalusaBuilding1979
Sylvest HouseFranklintonBuilding1979
US Post OfficeBogalusaBuilding1983
Varnado, D.A. and Son StoreFranklintonBuilding2001
Warren HouseFranklintonBuilding1998

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Washington was formed in 1819 (1819-03-06) from St.

WASHINGTON created from ST. TAMMANY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Washington Parish population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

47k25k2,2861820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
2,5172,6494,7085,1909,62824,16434,44338,37144,01544,20743,92645,463

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

197 cemeteries and 12 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 197 listed
NameLatLon
Adams Cemetery30.68459-90.02239
Adams Cemetery30.82919-89.82912
Adams Cemetery30.8807-89.91638
Alford Cemetery30.96156-90.2312
Ard CemeteryNoneNone
Banister Cemetery30.95334-90.31068
Bankston Cemetery30.95771-90.20407
Baughman Cemetery30.87116-89.9385
Beard Cemetery30.89907-90.1223
Bethel Assembly of God Cemetery30.99932-89.88138
Bickham Cemetery30.84771-90.25731
Bickham Cemetery30.96906-90.18342
Bickham Cemetery30.86706-90.21582
Bickham Cemetery30.8749-90.19341
Blackwell Cemetery30.95857-89.9194
Bond Cemetery30.83562-90.29255
Bonnie Cemetery30.96502-89.81678
Boon CemeteryNoneNone
Breland Cemetery30.9219-89.98737
Breland Cemetery30.92654-90.01299
Briarwood Cemetery30.99888-89.94704
Brock Cemetery30.98212-90.27648
Brown Cemetery30.91768-90.13369
Brumfield Cemetery30.91277-90.1289
Brumfield Cemetery30.92716-90.14347
Bulloch Cemetery30.91559-90.2258
Bullock Cemetery30.76049-90.14932
Bullock Cemetery30.80175-90.27547
Burch Cemetery30.89605-90.2289
Carson Cemetery30.84873-90.2836
Carter Cemetery30.92748-90.25412
Central Cemetery30.91689-89.94797
Chappell Cemetery30.76345-90.21129
Coburn Cemetery30.82616-89.89805
Connerley Cemetery30.97746-90.26992
Cordelia Cemetery30.7049-90.0923
Corken Cemetery30.75852-90.23065
Corkern Cemetery30.79856-90.20435
Corkern Cemetery30.6922-90.0696
Corkern Cemetery Number 130.86277-89.96454
Crain Cemetery30.95442-90.00198
Crain Cemetery30.92985-89.97718
Crain's Cemetery30.96919-89.95224
Crains Creek Cemetery30.96657-89.98758
Creel Cemetery30.83323-90.07841
Curter Cemetery30.87758-90.11744
Duffys Cemetery30.72907-89.86312
Duncan Cemetery30.9223-90.00088
Dyson Cemetery30.92966-90.31283
Faith Cemetery30.92371-90.03329
Fisher Cemetery30.93625-90.10261
Fornea Cemetery30.89723-89.82901
Fussell Cemetery30.76633-90.13075
Galloway Cemetery30.69879-89.98842
Gay Cemetery30.94823-90.01813
Gerald Cemetery30.93387-89.99462
Gerald Cemetery30.94271-90.00323
H H Williams Cemetery30.95569-89.87412
Haley Cemetery30.93447-90.1322
Harmony Cemetery30.92907-89.97924
Henry Jefferson Kennedy Cemetery30.98859-89.90304
Hill Top Cemetery30.93323-89.91674
Hillview Memorial Gardens30.74763-89.89458
Hinson Cemetery30.99656-90.23358
Hodges CemeteryNoneNone
House Cemetery30.70074-90.10591
Hunt Cemetery30.88101-90.03202
James Cemetery30.94724-90.13209
Jenkins Cemetery30.67337-89.89437
Jenkins Cemetery30.81256-90.12153
Jenkins Cemetery30.83353-90.02108
Jenkins Cemetery30.67789-89.96033
Jones Cemetery30.70576-90.04271
Kemp Cemetery30.91607-90.24739
Kennedy Cemetery30.99652-89.92379
Kennedy Family Cemetery30.98896-89.93605
Knight Cemetery30.8799-89.97341
Knight Cemetery30.73347-89.89501
Knight Cemetery30.89442-90.00534
Knight CemeteryNoneNone
Historical populated places — 12 of 12
NameLatLon
Bellamy30.91602-89.82424
Camp Five30.86074-89.97064
Camp Seven30.95518-90.02786
Camp Six30.90241-89.93619
Cumnock30.95185-90.17981
Dyson30.99712-90.24648
Huggins30.71185-90.0298
Irvings30.87324-89.83674
Julia30.71824-90.03869
Marston30.83463-89.84813
Mitch30.81519-89.85369
Sanfords Camp30.75935-90.05702

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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