Grand Chenier (, ) is an

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Cameron Parish Cameron Parish () is a parish in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,617. The parish seat is Cameron. Although it is the largest parish by area in Louisiana, it has the second-sm ...

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, United States. Its population is estimated at 352. Its ZIP code is 70643. St. Eugene Catholic Church in Grand Chenier, which is affiliated with the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lake Charles The Diocese of Lake Charles (Latin: ''Dioecesis Lacus Carolini''), is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in southwestern Louisiana in the United States. It is a suffragan bishop, suffragan see of the metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdio ...

, was established in 1961 by the Most Reverend

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, then the Bishop of Lafayette. The McCall Cemetery in Grand Chenier is named for a pioneer Cameron Parish family, one of whose members, Thomas W. McCall, was for forty years the Cameron Parish school superintendent. Conway LeBleu, a son-in-law of Thomas McCall, was the

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for Cameron Parish from 1964 to 1988. LeBleu and his wife, the former Virgie Annie McCall (1918-2016), one of the founders of the Cameron Parish Library, are interred at the McCall Cemetery.

Education

Cameron Parish School Board Cameron Parish School Board (CPSB) or Cameron Parish School District or Cameron Parish School System (CPSS) is a school district headquartered in unincorporated Cameron Parish, Louisiana, United States. The district's boundaries parallel those ...

is the school district for all of the parish. South Cameron High School has a Grand Chenier address. The Cameron Parish Library system operated the Grand Chenier Branch. negative effects from a hurricane mean that the library is not open.

References

Unincorporated communities in Louisiana Unincorporated communities in Cameron Parish, Louisiana Unincorporated communities in the Lake Charles metropolitan area {{Louisiana-geo-stub