List of U.S. Place Names of French Origin - Mississippi

Mississippi

  • Amite County (from amitié, "friendship")
  • Bay St. Louis (from Baie Saint-Louis)
  • Bayou Caddy
  • Beaumont
  • Bellefontaine
  • Benoit
  • Biloxi
  • Bourbon
  • Carriere
  • Centreville (note the "re" spelling in "centre" as opposed to "center")
  • Clermont Harbor
  • Decatur
  • De Lisle
  • D'Iberville (named after Pierre Lemoyne, Sieur d'Iberville, governor of New France)
  • Fayette
  • Gautier (Named for the Gautier family, who established a homestead on the site in 1867.)
  • LeFleur's Bluff State Park (Named after earlier French-Canadian trader and settler Louis LeFleur)
  • Pass Christian (Named after Nicholas Christian L'Adnier)
  • Petit Bois Island ("Little Woods")
  • Saucier
  • Sartinville
  • St. Martin

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Famous quotes containing the word mississippi:

    “Listen, my friend, I’ve just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
    —Patrick Buchanan (b. 1938)

    “Mississippi: I told you I was no good with a gun.
    Bull: The trouble is Doc, Cole was in front of the gun. The safe place is behind Mississippi when he shoots that thing.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)

    ““Where is the Mississippi panorama
    And the girl who played the piano?
    Where are you, Walt?
    The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)