Historical Marker
William Kendrick Square
Greensburg, St. Helena County · Louisiana
St. Helena Parish has been shrinking since it was made in 1810, when the Republic of West Florida's surrender brought it into the Territory of Orleans. It lost its southern section to Livingston Parish in 1832, the same year the seat moved to Greensburg, and more land in 1866, when pieces of it went into the new Tangipahoa Parish. At the 2020 census it counted about 10,900 people, a little over half of them Black, one of six majority-Black parishes in Louisiana. A suspected meteorite crater, the state's only one, lies about six miles southwest of town.
Where it stands
30.82928, -90.66740 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Greensburg Land Office — steps away
- Springfield - Liberty Road — 7.0 mi
- Tangipahoa — 9.7 mi
- Camp Moore — 10.0 mi