page_title: Madisonville, Louisiana
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Madisonville, Louisiana / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Historic marker by shore of Tchefuncte river in Madisonville, Louisiana
context_page_description: Madisonville is a town in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 748 at the 2010 census. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area. The ZIP code is 70447.
context_section_description: Madisonville was founded by Jean Baptiste Baham in 1800, before the United States acquired this area,  as the town of Coquille or Cokie because of the abundance of shells in the area, at the site of the Native American village of Chiconcte. The town was renamed in honor of President James Madison circa 1811.
  Madisonville was an important port, providing bricks and other products of the towns along the Tchefuncte River to New Orleans, in the decades before the Civil War. After the Union capture of New Orleans, this area remained under nominal Confederate control; and the cutoff of trade with New Orleans across "enemy lines" was devastating to the local economy, which did not recover for decades after the peace.
  The opening of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway and associated highways gradually brought Madisonville into the sphere of Greater New Orleans, in the second half of the 20th century.
  Much of the town flooded with the Lake Pontchartrain storm surge of Hurricane Katrina, on August 29, 2005. The police/fire station and the town hall were damaged by the flood waters. The town flooded again in 2012 during Hurricane Isaac.  Town buildings were again repaired but the police station was moved to an historic building at the intersection of Covington, St. John and Cedar Streets.  The fire station later moved to a new building on Hwy. 22 just west of the town center.
caption: Historical marker next to the Tchefuncte River includes a reference to General Andrew Jackson's stop here late in 1814, en route to the Battle of New Orleans. David B. Morgan and other Madisonville residents were among the American defense forces at New Orleans; several of the men are buried in the historic Madisonville Cemetery.
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