The election of Barack Obama as the president of the United States marked historic turn of American history. It came almost 150 years after the American Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. After slaves were emancipated and granted citizenship rights, freedmen had gained political representation in the Southern United States for the first time. Although it took 14 decades after blacks were all freed to have a black president, it did not take that long for the first black man to be elected to national office John Willis Menard of Louisiana holds that honor, being chosen by voters of...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Centennial Map of Evergreen Timeline of Evergreen History 1812...........War of 1812 veterans of Evergreen area 1832...........Pearce arrives in Evergreen 1835 ..........Oakwold 1830s.........Pearce Store 1837...........Post Office established 1839...........Evergreen Methodist Church founded 1841...........Bayou Rouge Baptist founded 1842...........Clarendon plantation home 1856...........Lone Pine plantation home 1856...........Stephen Pearce Plantation 1850s.........Cappel home 1857...........Evergreen Home Institute established 1858...........Mansuel Bennett home built...

Brief histories of pre-Civil War families of Bayou Rouge Baptist Church in Evergreen, Louisiana. Prepared for 175th anniversary of the Church in July, 2016. The church was founded in 1841. ALLEN family BENNETT family BETTISON family BRANCH family BROWN family BRUNSON family BUBENZER family BUCK family CAPPEL family CHAMBERLAIN family CHATELAIN family EWELL family FLOURNOY family FRITH family GRAY family HALL family HOLLINSHEAD family HUDSON family IRION family JEANSONNE family KEMPER family KILPATRICK family MARSHALL family MILES family MOUNGER family NORMAND family O'QUINN family PEARCE...