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Four Systems Used in Louisiana

French arpent

Spanish sitio

English Metes & Bounds

US Section/Township

Characteristics of Arpent

Colonial French

Land grant along rivers and bayous

Perpendicular lines from the river

Benefits of Arpent

allowed farmers river frontage, high ground to grow crops and timberland

Problems with Arpent

rivers changing course

Colonial Spanish Sitio

developed as Spanish stockmen’s moved eastward into Louisiana’s western fringe

Land grants are also called?

Sitio

Large Grants (French settlers)

vacheries

Metes and Bounds are from what system?

English

Who brought metes and bounds to Florida Parishes?

Anglo-Americans

Problems with Metes and Bounds

boundaries tied to ephemeral objects

Metes and Bounds

irregularly shaped land holdings

American Township & Range (found where?)

in North and West parts of state

Linear Settlement are tied to who?

French Arpents

Location of Linear Settlements

along bayous and rivers

Parish Settlement is tied to who?

American Township

Principle of Folk Housing

to build a type of house they are used to

Major Types of Housing

French

Backwood (upland)

African (lowland)

National

Mobile

Characteristics of French Housing

Salle (living room)

Chamber (bedroom)

No hallway

Central fireplace

French Caribbean

Raised off the ground

Galleries for cross-ventilation

Central hallway

Crops

soybean

rice

sugarcane

cotton

Livestock

beef cattle

dairy cattle

poultry

Timber

Pinewood

Hardwood

Marine Fisheries

Shrimp

menhaden

crabs

finfish

Fur Industry

Raccoon

Fox

Opossum

mink