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Cheneyville is a town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 625 at the 2010 census.

Cheneyville town overview:
Name:	Cheneyville town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Louisiana
County:	Rapides Parish
Elevation:	62 ft (19 m)
Total Area:	1.02 sq mi (2.63 km²)
Land Area:	1.02 sq mi (2.63 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	468
Population Density:	460.63/sq mi (177.82/km²)
Area code:	318
FIPS code:	2214660
GNISfeature ID:	2406260

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History

The town was named for settler William Cheney.

Cheneyville is significant in the history of the Restoration Movement associated with Alexander Campbell. In 1843 most of the membership of a Baptist congregation, under the leadership of William Prince Ford, who had been influenced by Campbell’s writings, became a Church of Christ. The Cheneyville Christian Church is the oldest congregation associated with the Restoration Movement in Louisiana. In 1857, Campbell visited the congregation and was favorably impressed by its fellowship between the races.

Ford is also known as the original enslaver of Solomon Northup, the main character in the feature film, Twelve Years a Slave. Northup was an African-American who had been born free, but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., and sold to Ford in New Orleans in 1841.