Frenchtown, Houston
Language: French
Frenchtown is a section of the Fifth Ward in Houston, Texas. In 1922, a group of Louisiana Creoles organized Frenchtown, which contained a largely Roman Catholic and Creole culture.

History

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 forced many Creoles to leave Louisiana, and they settled the Frenchtown area

The Creole people brought their musical influences, and zydeco music was established in the community. They were relatively wealthy and believed in Roman Catholicism. West wrote that Frenchtown was "clannish".[2] Around the 1950s young women from Frenchtown rarely married outside of the community,

The Creole Knights, a social club including twelve members of the first families to move to Frenchtown, was in operation as of 1995. West called it one of the most exclusive such clubs in Houston

The community was about four square blocks. The Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church, completed in 1930 by Creoles for Creoles, serves as a social center for the neighborhood. The Houston Press described the Continental Zydeco Ballroom at 3101 Collingsworth as serving as the "Saturday-night focal point" for Frenchtown for several decades

It comprised approximately 500 French Creoles

Residents of Frenchtown had a distinct language, religion, cuisine, music. Some Frenchtown children were ridiculed in school due to their language, and for some adults language made assimilation difficult, so parents eventually discouraged the use of French by the children. 

also see:

The Diocese of Lafayette's Crusade to Save Catholicism: Nationalizing Creole ...
by C Landry · 2018 — Abstract: Events between 1916 and 1926 disrupted the flow of Francophone clergy from Europe to Creole communities in Louisiana