Jesuit Bend, Louisiana
Jesuit Bend is an unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the West Bank of the Mississippi River.
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Coordinates: 29°44′54″N 90°01′33″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Louisiana |
Parish | Plaquemines |
Elevation | 3 ft (0.9 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code(s) | 504 |
History
Members of the Society of Jesus settled at this location in the early part of the 18th century, a bend in the Mississippi River, hence the name "Jesuit Bend".[1] The Jesuit settlers brought with them from Asia the satsuma, a loosely skinned seedless tangerine. Satsumas have been farmed at this locale ever since.[1]
At one point, Jesuit Bend had a station on the New Orleans, Fort Jackson & Grand Isle Railroad line.[2] Jesuit Bend was also the site of an incident in 1955 when Rev. Gerald Lewis, an African-American Catholic priest, was stopped by parishioners from celebrating Mass there because of his color.[3] The community was thereupon placed under interdict by the Archbishop of New Orleans, Joseph Francis Rummel.[4] This is the location of the Jesuit Bend Wetland Mitigation Bank, an effort to return open water to a fully functioning freshwater marsh, to help reverse the longstanding problem of wetlands erosion in the Mississippi River Delta.
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References
- Satsumas WWNO-FM Radio story of October 3, 2009, accessed September 14, 2014.
- Louisiana in Three Volumes, Alcée Fortier, ed., Century Historical Association, 1914, Vol. 1, page 586.
- Conciliaria Archived 2014-08-26 at the Wayback Machine, March 27, 2012 (Accessed August 13, 2014).
- rs. "Catholics and Jim Crow, Review Essay". jsr.fsu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-13.