Flags Over Feliciana: The Story of a Place Claimed, Contested, and Enduring
June 12, 2026
By the time the morning sun rises over the bluffs of the Mississippi River at St. Francisville, its light falls upon a landscape that has worn many banners. Long before highways traced the hills and church bells echoed through town squares, explorers, soldiers, settlers, revolutionaries, and dreamers stood on this same ground beneath different flags, each believing they were shaping