Ascension Parish, Louisiana

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.

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.

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.

Brittany is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, in the United States.

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.

The Lamar Dixon Expo Center is a multi-purpose event center in Gonzales, Louisiana built in 1999.

St. Amant (or Saint Amant) is an unincorporated community located in Ascension Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. This community has not been incorporated into a city or town. It is situated about 25 miles south-east of Baton Rouge. and 50 miles north west of New Orleans. It is named after the St. Amant family, some of the early settlers in the region. The area was originally known to the Native Americans and early french settlers as Duckroost, or Cabanocey. The Saint Amant post office has the ZIP code of 70774.

Sorrento is a town in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,514 in 2020. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.

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.

The Houmas, also known as Burnside Plantation and currently known as Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, is a historic plantation complex and house museum in Burnside, Louisiana. The plantation was established in the late 1700s, with the current main house completed in 1840. It was named after the native Houma people, who originally occupied this area of Louisiana.The complex, containing eight buildings and one structure, and the 10 acres (4.0 ha) they rest upon, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1980.

Burnside is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. It was founded by French and German settlers in 1726, early in the French colonial period. The ZIP Code for Burnside is 70738.The community's name is for John Burnside, an Irish American who owned The Houmas sugar plantation from 1857 until his death in 1881. In 1860, Burnside owned more than 800 slaves according to the 1860 Louisiana Slave census of the US government. There are three local sites which have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places at one time or another: The Houmas plantation, Tezcuco plantation, and St. Joseph's School,

Duplessis is an unincorporated community located in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is located north of Gonzales.