Pagny-the-White-coast

Pagny-the-White-Coast is a common French, located in the department of the Meuse and the area Lorraine.

Its inhabitants is called the Blancôtois .

Geography

A coast, forming a kind of arc of a circle, overhangs the village. The calcareous ground of the area explains the white color of the falls present on the coast. These elements are surely at the origin of the name of the village.

Pagny is served by two secondary roads:

D145 since Vaucouleurs, Sepvigny, Champougny by the North-West, and since Sauvigny by the south;
D32 since Colombey-the-Beautiful, Allamps, Valves-the-Châtel by the east, and since Montbras by south-west.

D32 joined D964 to approximately 3 km in the south-west of the village. This secondary road joined by the south Domrémy-the-Virgin like Neufchâteau

History

Origin

It would seem that the village is mentioned for the first time at the 7th century under the name of Paterniacum, a hamlet Gallic. It will become Panei thereafter, then Pagny-on-Meuse and finally Pagny-the-White-Coast with the Révolution. In Patois, that gives Loincloth-the-Bianche-Costs , and the inhabitants, Blancôtois, are called the Sachots of poîes (Sachets of lice or Bags of chips).

Employers' festival

The Saint-Gregoire , of the name of the Parish, is the employers' festival. She is celebrated the March 12th, but because it work that the inhabitants in the farms of the village must provide, the fairs and other festivities are rather organized in autumn, and particularly in September a few weeks after the harvest S. Aujourd'hui, the Saint-Gregoire is not celebrated any more. Small a Fun fair remains all the same each year first Sunday of May.

History and inheritance

A Water mill is built in 1550, but it is destroyed towards 1960.
In 1630, during the War Thirty Year old, the Swedish set fire to most of the village.

The extremely of Pagny is built a few years before 1870 according to the architect Séré de Rivière. In spite of its name, it is located on the territory of the commune of Uruffe. In 1920, it is bought by a private individual, but the German requisition it during four years at the time of the Second world war. They transform it into farm and make come from the workmen Polish to cultivate potatoes in particular there.
The fort accessible any more, because is not repurchased today by a new owner between 1995 and 2000. It should be noted that there exists also the battery of Pagny, located on the coast.

Pagny is served by the Railroad in 1870. France is then in war against Germany and the Prussia. The first Train is besides a convoy of Fantassin S prussiens.
The line was gradually forsaken then entirely unused in 1970, the village not being rather gravitational. The house of the guard barrier, was the only vestige of the line until its demolition in 2005.

The electricity arrives in 1912, and the TSF starting from 1925 in a handle of houses. The latter, the means fastest to follow the topicality, is adopted more largely only as from the year 1940, at the time of the Second world war.

In the years 1930, an inhabitant of the village to create small a dairy . This one changes owner in 1941 then knows a great expansion in the years 1950. Strong of its success, she moves towards 1980 with Sorcy-Saint-Martin. A recent project envisages the creation of about fifteen social housing in the ruins of the dairy.

Beautiful a laundrette in the form of half rings, known as being most beautiful of the surroundings and making the pride of the inhabitants of Pagny, is destroyed in the years 1980, an aim of creating a new road. The laundrette of summer, on the edge of the channel, always present but is drowned most of the year.

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