Hahnville’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Hahnville. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1682, La Salle recorded the presence of a village of Quinipissa peoples in the vicinity of modern-day Hahnville. In the 1700s, German immigrants to the French colony of Louisiana began settling along the Mississippi upriver from New Orleans in what became known as the German Coast. In the early 1800s, following the sale of Louisiana, the United States established the St. Charles Courthouse in the area and a small community grew up around it. In February 1872, Thomas Sharpe began laying out a village near the courthouse, which he called Flaggville after district judge Othelle J. Flagg. Around the same time, former governor Michael Hahn, who had a sugar plantation upriver from Flaggville, began dividing his land to found Hahnville. Gradually "Hahnville" became the commonly accepted name for the larger area.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Hahnville’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hahnville’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewViews of Vicksburg, Miss. & Hahnv…, 1927: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Hahnville
See all 2 →Hahnville, decade by decade
1990s
unknown2 items
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Views of Vicksburg, Miss. & Hahnville, La (1927) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.