Gonzales is a city in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, it has a population of 12,231. Known as the “Jambalaya Capital of the World”, it is well-known for its annual Jambalaya Festival, which was first held in 1968. Stephen “Steve” F. Juneau came going on with the idea for the Jambalaya Festival and served as the first president of the Jambalaya Festival Association.

Early European settlers of the Place that was developed as Gonzales were, for the most part, of French and Spanish ancestry. They arranged among the Houma Indians who lived in the area.

Among the projects and plans carried out by Luis de Unzaga (“Le Conciliateur”) while he was governor of Louisiana amid 1769 and 1777 was the marketing of additional settlements by Europeans; among them were French Acadians and Málaga in the fruitful Mississippi region, and more specifically in the Unzaga Post or “Puesto de Unzaga” that he created in 1771 in Pointe Coupee, the parish of Saint Gabriel in 1773 and Fort Manchac in 1776; the Gonzales people occupied estate at the confluence of the abovementioned European settlements.

By 1851, the small European settlement still had lonesome ten residents. A scholarly was acknowledged in 1855 by Adlard Gautreaux for the European-American kids in the area. By 1886, the pact had grown, and the citizens of the community elected “Big” José Gonzáles as their sheriff. José’s son, Joseph “Tee-Joe” (for Petit Joe) Gonzales, opened a general heap and state office in May 1887. The make known office became known as the Gonzales Post Office.