page_title: Rapides Cemetery
section_title: Colonial era
hierarchical_section_title: Rapides Cemetery / History / Colonial era
caption_attribution_description: English: Rapides Cemetery This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 79001088
context_page_description: Rapides Cemetery is a historic burial ground located in Pineville, Louisiana at the site of the colonial era Post of Rapides.
context_section_description: The site was the location of a simple Spanish colonial military post in 1722 or 1723. It was in use as graveyard in c. 1769. The Post du Rapide was lightly manned by the French during the French colonial period when the primary activity was trade with the Native Americans. After 1762 when France ceded Louisiana to Spain a small settlement developed around the Post El Rapido. A report to the Spanish Governor O'Reilly in 1769 found 33 whites, 18 slaves, a small Native American village of 26 men and 18 women. In 1799 the settlement had grown to a population of 760 and in 1805 it became known as Pineville. The site that was to become the Rapides Cemetery was in use at that time, known simply as the public cemetery.
caption: Rapides Cemetery, Pineville
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