The area that became the Florida Parishes was at one time part of French Louisiana.

These Northshore parishes form the eastern Florida Parishes.

Protestants are concentrated in the northern and central parts of the state and in the northern tier of the Florida Parishes.

The portions of West Florida now located in Louisiana are known as the Florida Parishes.

Claiborne established the boundaries of the Florida Parishes.

For decades prior to 1974, the district was virtually coterminous with the Florida Parishes centered on Hammond.

Washington Parish is the most northeasterly of what are called the Florida Parishes, for it was prior to 1821 a legal part of Spanish West Florida.

Hammond attorney James H. Morrison had little support outside the Florida Parishes.

In 1953, he returned to Hammond to open the first architectural practice in the Florida Parishes of southeastern Louisiana.

Under redistricting, Senate District 6 has a different configuration reaching from Baton Rouge to the Florida Parishes.