Roncal

Charles Gayarré and his wife Shadie bought 533 acres in Tangipahoa Parish in 1859 and named the place Roncal for the Spanish region his ancestors came from. They lived here or in New Orleans until they sold it in 1881. Gayarré was the state's leading historian, author of the four-volume Louisiana History of 1866. He was also a slaveholder who had inherited enslaved people from his grandfather, held that Black people were inferior, backed secession, and in 1863 proposed arming enslaved men for the Confederacy. He died in New Orleans in 1895, poor and widely respected.

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