Belle Alliance is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Assumption Parish, Louisiana

Louisiana

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, United States

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. It is part of the Pierre Part

Pierre Part, Louisiana

Pierre Part is a census-designated place in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,239 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Pierre Part Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Assumption Parish...

 Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Belle Alliance is named after the Belle Alliance Plantation

Belle Alliance Plantation

Belle Alliance is an Italianate and Greek Revival plantation house in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. An unincorporated community named Belle Alliance is named after the Plantation...

 located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche

Bayou Lafourche

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 in Assumption Parish, about five miles (8 km) out of Donaldsonville

Donaldsonville, Louisiana

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. During the 1770s, this 7000 acres (28.3 km²) plot was granted to Don Juan Vives, a physician and military officer of the Spanish government. The actual Belle Alliance Plantation was built by a successful sugar planter Charles Anton Kock, also owner of St. Emma Plantation around 1846.

Today, the site is known as the community of Belle Alliance. The plantation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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