Willis & Suire Forestry Consultant

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Washington is a village in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 742 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Opelousas–Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area. Washington was the largest inland port between New Orleans and St. Louis for much of the 19th century. == History == Washington was founded in 1764 as a French trading post. In 1774 the first church, La Iglesia paroquial de la Immaculada Conception del Puesto de Opelousas was started and the post became known as Church Landing. In 1835 the town was incorporated under the current name.. In the early 1800s smaller steamboats started traveling up Bayou Teche to the Opelousas River, renamed Bayou Courtableau, at Barre’s Landing (named after Alexander Charles Barré) that became Port Barre, then to Washington where there was a bottleneck as the steamboats could not turn around.