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Lafayette (La) Daily Advertiser, December 30, 19997
Some Memorable dates in parish history
By: Jim Bradshaw
1795
Charles Morgan is born in Killingsworth, Conn.
1797
July 3 - The Berwick family is given a land grant for Tiger Island, the ridge upon which Morgan City is built.
1808
Franklin in founded as Carlin's Settlement.
1811
Aug. 27 - St. Mary Parish is formed from St. Martin. Franklin becomes the parish seat.
1816
Dr. Walter Brashear acquires Tiger Island.
1820
Franklin is officially incorporated as a village
1832
Capt. John Patterson comes to the place then known as Dutch Settlement.
1835
Charles Morgan's side-wheeler steams down the Mississippi River and into the Gulf of Mexico, heading for Galveston. It is the first steamship to navigate in the gulf of Mexico.
1847
The first school in St. Mary Parish is established at what will become Patterson
1848
The post office is moved from Charpentier Plantation to Dutch Settlement, wich is renamed Pattersonville.
1851
The original courthouse in Franklin is replaced with a brick building.
1852
December - Fire destroys most of the village of Charenton.
1853
August - a yellow fever scare brings a quarantine to Franklin.
1855
A post office is established at "the new town of Brashear," as Morgan City was then called.
1857
The New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Railroad reaches Berwick Bay.
1859
June 6 - Fire razed the Catholic chapel and presbytery at Brashear City.
1860
March 8 - Brashear City is formally incorporated.
1867
A yellow fever epidemic strikes Brashear City.
1869
May 25 - Charles Morgan buys the New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Railroad and combines it with his steamship company.
1873
Feb. 25 - An Act of Congress approves the enlargement of the Collection District of the Teche, making Brashear a port of entry.
Charles Morgan Begins dredging a 10-footdeep channel through Atchafalaya Bay.
1876
May - Brasher changes its name to Morgan City.
1881
Feb. 24 - Six inches of snow falls in Morgan City
1882
A railroad bridge is completed over Berwick Bay.
1893
Construction begins on St. Mary Central High School in Franklin.
1895
The Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. establishes a citywide system in Franklin.
1896
Capt. A.F. Lucas discovers salt at belle Isle.
1897
The town of Patterson is incorporated.
1913
July14 - The town of Baldwin is incorporated.