Providing fair, concise and honest news for the City of Zachary and surrounding communities, including Baker, Slaughter, the Plains, Pride, Chaneyville and more.
The Zachary Plainsman has been covering Zachary and surrounding city news since 1953.
Zachary was named after a farmer who owned the land that became the present city of Zachary. Zachary's first post office opened in 1885, and it was incorporated as a city in 1889. The first census in 1914 reported just 419 residents. By 1980, there were 7,525 residents, in 2000 there were 11,275 residents.
The Zachary school district became independent from the East Baton Rouge Parish school district in 2004.
Zachary was the first city in Louisiana to elect a Republican as mayor in 20th-century Louisiana. Jack Louis Breaux, Sr., served as a part-time mayor from 1966-1978, and a full-time mayor under a home-rule charter from 1978 until his death of a brain tumor on January 26, 1980.
Our current city festivals include ZFest.
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Address & Contact
- Street:
- 2060 Church St, Suite E
- City:
- Zachary
- State:
- LA
- Zip:
- 70791
- Phone:
- (225) 654-6841
- Website:
- http://www.zacharytoday.com
- Category:
- Media/News/Publishing