Morganza is an incorporated village near the Mississippi River in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 659 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area. The village's zip code is 70759.
Morganza takes its named from Morganza Plantation, the antebellum holding of Charles Morgan, an early surveyor, political figure and first American sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish. The post office wa...
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Morganza is an incorporated village near the Mississippi River in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 659 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area. The village's zip code is 70759.
Morganza takes its named from Morganza Plantation, the antebellum holding of Charles Morgan, an early surveyor, political figure and first American sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish. The post office was opened in 1847, but closed some years later and reopened in 1899. Members of the Campbell family held the position of postmaster until 1970. The town was incorporated in 1908.
Morganza was the site of a fortification and major Federal Army encampment during the Civil War. The area was the site of several skirmshes during the war.
Located at the lower end of a sharp bend of the Mississippi River, Morganza has been subjected to flooding of the great river a number of times. Levee breaches or "crevasses" occurred at Morganza and Grand Levee...
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