Assumption Parish Info Napoleonville was first settled by French and Spanish in 1750 and was later named by a French settler who had fought under Napoleon. The present courthouse dates from 1896 and replaced earlier structures destroyed by fires which swept the town in 1884 and 1894. The Southern Pacific Railroad came through in 1890.
Madewood plantation has tours and bed and breakfast facilities.
Attakapa Landing was once an Indian village belonging to the only known cannibals in the area. Labadieville-Thought to have been the site of the chief village of the Washi Indians, one of four tribes mentioned by Bienville when he explored the area in 1699. This village southeast of Natchitoches was the last home of the Natchez Indians after they were defeated by the French in Mississippi. They continued their war-like ways however and St. Denis, wanting to protect the friendly Natchitoches Indians, completed the defeat of the Natchez. The village was not established until the Texas and Pacific Railroad came through in 1938.