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Orleans Territory

Orleans Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States formed out of the first subdivision of the Louisiana Purchase. Orleans Territory is what we today think of as the State of Louisiana, the remaining land was known as Louisiana Territory or the District of Louisiana (and later as the Missouri Territory). Orleans Territory was created on March 26, 1804, and became Louisiana, the 18th U.S. state, on March 30, 1812.

Orleans Territory was the land south of the Mississippi Territory and south of the 33rd parallel, west of the Mississippi River, within the Louisiana Purchase.

W.C. C. Claiborne was appointed the first governor of the Orleans Territory.

See also: Historic regions of the United States

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