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St. Theresa Of Avila Catholic Church is a church parish located in downtown Gonzales, Louisiana, United States. Under its present name, the parish was officially established in 1918.

Galvez is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States, ten miles (16 km) southeast of Baton Rouge. It is surrounded by the larger unincorporated community of Prairieville, with which it shares the 70769 ZIP code.

Gonzales is a city in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, it has a population of 12,231. Known as the "Jambalaya Capital of the World", it is famous for its annual Jambalaya Festival, which was first held in 1968. Stephen "Steve" F. Juneau came up with the idea for the Jambalaya Festival and served as the first president of the Jambalaya Festival Association.

Prairieville is a census-designated place in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is south of Baton Rouge and north of Gonzales. Prairieville is an expanding bedroom suburb of Baton Rouge. Its name is derived from the once plentiful pastures and prairies that were visible from Highway 73 (Jefferson Hwy.) and Airline Highway, which is now covered with development. Prairieville started off as a quiet community with few people. In recent decades, Prairieville has benefited from migration out of Baton Rouge, with new residents particularly drawn to the area by its high-performing public schools and low crime rate. Prairieville had a 2020 census population of 33,197 inhabitants. If it was incorporated it would be the largest city in Ascension Parish. Prairieville is in one of the fastest-growing areas in Louisiana. Prairieville's population is bigger than the parish's two largest incorporated cities, Donaldsonville (6,695) and Gonzales (12,231) combined.

East Ascension High School, commonly referred to as EA, is a public high school in Gonzales, Louisiana, United States. It is within the Ascension Parish School Board. As of 2010, the principal is Traci McCorkle, the associate principal is Lauren Lambert Avery, and the four assistant principals are Kim Uzee, Walter Traveler, Allison Brigniac, and Tracy Swacker. The school mascot is the spartan, and the school colors are royal blue and yellow. The school newspaper is The Spartan Lance, a member of the High School National Ad Network. Gonzales Middle School and Central Middle School feed into EA.

The Robert Penn Warren House, also known as Twin Oaks, is a historic house in Prairieville, Louisiana, U.S.. It was designed in the Colonial Revival architectural style, and it was built in c. 1905.It was the private residence of author Robert Penn Warren from 1941, when he bought the house, to 1942. During this period, the house received several alterations from its original plan.The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1993.

Dutchtown is an unincorporated community of Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. Dutchtown High School

Hobart is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States, located in the vicinity of Prairieville. Hobart is located State Highway 42.

Dutchtown High School is a 5A school that was completed in 2003 in Geismar, an unincorporated area of Ascension Parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is within the Ascension Parish School Board. Dutchtown Middle School, Bluff Middle School and Prairieville Middle School feed into Dutchtown High. The architecture is based on that of the old Dutchtown High, which was situated across the highway at the current Dutchtown Middle School. According to the Louisiana School Performance Scores/Letter Grades released by the Louisiana Department of Education, Dutchtown High School is an "A" school and is the #1 high-performing open-enrollment public high school in the state of Louisiana.In 2017, Dutchtown High School was named a 2017 World-Leading Learner and invited to join the Global Learning Network (GLN), a community of educators from schools that develop, practice, and share innovative approaches to education.

Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, formerly St. Elizabeth Hospital, is a 78-bed Catholic community hospital in Gonzales, Louisiana, serving Ascension Parish. It is a member of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOL), and has operated as a unit of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge since 2019.The hospital has 24-hour E.R. available. St. Elizabeth Physicians building also located at same address with a number of physicians and specialists.The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, a Catholic religious institute, took over the hospital in 2000. and the hospital joined the FMOL system in 2004. In 2018, it announced it would become part of the Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center as a cost-cutting measure, to enable it to expand along with the parish's growth.

St. Amant High School is a high school located in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is within the Ascension Parish School Board. As of the 2018–2019 school year, the school has an enrollment of 2,064 students and 98.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 123.1.The school colors are black and gold and the school mascot is the alligator. The current principal is Beth Templet.

Ascension Parish (French: Paroisse de l'Ascension) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 126,500. Its parish seat is Donaldsonville. The parish was created in 1807. Ascension Parish is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. Ascension Parish is one of the 22 parishes that make up Acadiana, the heartland of the Cajun people and their culture. This is exhibited by the prevalence of the French or Cajun French language heard throughout the parish, as well as the many festivals celebrated by its residents, including the Boucherie Festival, Lagniappe Music and Seafood Festival, Crawfish Festival, and the Jambalaya Festival. The largest incorporated city in Ascension Parish, Gonzales, is celebrated as the "Jambalaya Capital of the World".