Darrow is an

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and

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Ascension Parish Ascension Parish (; ) 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 metr ...

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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 200. It is the location of three properties listed on the U.S.

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, Helvetia Dependency, and Hermitage plantations. Darrow also is the home to the childhood house of

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after it was moved down the

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from

Carville, Louisiana Carville is a neighborhood of St. Gabriel, located in Iberville Parish in southern Louisiana, sixteen miles south of Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi River. Best known as the childhood hometown of famed political consultant James Carville, i ...

Demographics

Notable people

* Edward Joseph Price,

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for District 58, former resident of Darrow

References

Baton Rouge metropolitan area Census-designated places in Ascension Parish, Louisiana Unincorporated communities in Ascension Parish, Louisiana {{louisiana-geo-stub