St. Joseph, Louisiana
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St. Joseph is a town in, and the parish seat of, rural Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States, in the delta of the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, St. Joseph had a population
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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
Jefferson B. Snyder
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Jefferson B. Snyder, was a lawyer and politician from the Mississippi River delta country of northeastern Louisiana. Snyder became a virtual political boss of Madison, Tensas, and East Carroll parishe
St. Joseph, Louisiana
…of St. Joseph. A posse caught up with them, attacking and killing two of the outlaws, but failed to capture the entire gang. Among the deputies was Jefferson B. Snyder, who later was a long-serving district attorney in northeastern Louisiana. Jesse James was killed three years later by one of his own gang members in…
April 13, 1889 issue of The Madison Journal, published in Tallulah, Madison Parish, Louisiana.