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Welcome to the Donaldsonville Home page. The Donaldsonville Home page provides as much information as possible on Donaldsonville. Knowing Donaldsonville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Donaldsonville’s Home page, you will also find Donaldsonville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Donaldsonville has a population of 8424. 44.5% of Donaldsonville’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.5 are female. 34.4% of Donaldsonville is married and 57.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $143,492, and the average rent is $709. Household median income in Donaldsonville is $23,151, and the individual median income is $16,409. Donaldsonville’s Ethnic is the following: Black(83.5%), White(15.1%), Multiple(1.4%), Hispanic(1.3%).


Donaldsonville (historically French: Lafourche-des-Chitimachas) is a city in, and the parish seat of Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located along the River Road of the west bank of the Mississippi River, it is a part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. At the 2020 U.S.


census, it had a population of 6,695.Donaldsonville's historic district has what has been described as the finest collection of buildings from the antebellum era to 1933, of any of the Louisiana river towns above New Orleans. Union forces attacked the city, occupying it and several of the river parishes beginning in 1862.


Fort Butler was built on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The fort was successfully defended on June 28, 1863, against a Confederate attack. This battle was one of the first occasions when free blacks and fugitive slaves fought as soldiers on behalf of the Union. The fort is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After the war, in 1868 Donaldsonville residents elected as mayor Pierre Caliste Landry, an attorney and Methodist minister; he was the first African American to be elected as mayor in the United States.


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