Grant is an

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Allen Parish Allen Parish (french: Paroisse d'Allen) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 25,764. The parish seat is Oberlin and the largest city is Oakdale. Allen Parish is in southwestern Louisia ...

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, United States. The community is located on

Louisiana Highway 377 Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...

, northwest of Oberlin. Grant has a

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with ZIP code 70644, which opened on July 3, 1894. The

Allen Parish School Board Allen Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Oberlin in Allen Parish in southwestern Louisiana, United States. From 1960 to 1969, Dorothy Sue Hill, the state representative for Allen, Beauregard, and Calcasieu parishes, t ...

operates Fairview High School in Grant. Also, Allen Parish Fire Protection District 3 operates its main station and training facility in Grant. Northwest Allen Water District has its office in Grant as well. Both the fire district complex and water district office are just south of the high school on LA 377. Grant is considered the center of Ward Four of Allen Parish, although it is not an incorporated community. Two cemeteries serve the community: Palestine Cemetery beside Palestine Baptist Church and Hamilton Cemetery, both south of the high school. Historically, the bluff bank of Whiskey Chitto Creek near Palestine Baptist Church and Cemetery is considered the first area settled by "Saddler" Johnson in about 1816 and may be older than any permanent white settlement in Beauregard and western Allen parishes. McNeese Archives, Robert Jones' East of the Sabine: A History of Beauregard Parish (1931) It is not known if a native American village preceded it, although historical records show that at least two other early settlements in neighboring Beauregard Parish were located near prior existing native American villages.

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