Tensas Parish, Louisiana
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Tensas Parish is a parish located in the northeastern section of the State of Louisiana; its eastern border is the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,147. It is the least populated parish in Louisiana. The parish seat is St. Joseph. The name Tensas is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. The parish was founded in 1843 following Indian Removal.
Tensas Parish Courthouse at St. Joseph
Lake St. Joseph, an ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River at Newellton
Tensas Academy in St. Joseph opened in 1970.
Legion Memorial Cemetery is located north of Newellton off Louisiana Highway 605.
St. Joseph, Louisiana
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St. Joseph, often called St. Joe, is a town in, and the parish seat of, rural Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States, in the delta of the Mississippi River. The population was 1,176 at the 2010 census. The town had an African-American majority of 77.4 percent in 2010.
St. Joseph, Louisiana
The Tensas Parish Library is housed on the ground floor of this former residence, built c. 1858 by a local merchant and partially restored in 1964. The upstairs contains the Plantation Museum.
Plank Road is the main street of St. Joseph.
St. Joseph Town Hall