Andres Cruz discovered and founded the town in 1813. His family had been in New Orleans since Spanish occupation of the Louisiana territory, but he wanted to found his own town. The area that became Verde was a little bit of decent land completely surrounded by swampland. Why he picked this area isn't really known to anyone but him. Why he picked the name of Verde is much more simple: verde means 'green' in Spanish. While not creative, it did describe both the surrounding swampland and the pretty grasslands that were in the land where the town would lay. Verde's current population is six hundred and twelve people.
While Verde was never meant to be a large town or city with lots of money, it has done well for itself over the years. Andres Cruz brought about fifty men, women, and children with him when he came to the area, and they have grown and multiplied in the nearly two hundred years since then. Several families made more than enough money for themselves to build several plantations in the area, including Cruz's family itself. However, post Civil War economy caused most of those families to build smaller houses closer to town and abandon their larger estates. Many of these homes are still standing. The Cruz plantation is being turned into a bed and breakfast by two of his descendants, Maria and Fernando Cruz. Several others are still around in different states of repair, anything from needing a few new windows to completely uninhabitable and need to be torn down.
Businesses in the town are few, but those that stick it out tend to do well. The most well known restaurant is Delilah's, an Italian restaurant run by Delilah Pizzolatto, her husband Daniel, and her three children Danielle, Sylvia, and David also work there from time to time. There are a couple of other restaurants and a few other businesses as well.
The school is a small one, with all of the grades put together in one school building. All of the lower grades have one teacher per grade, grades 6-8 all have one teacher per subject, as do grades 9-12.
The only church in town is the St. Theresa Catholic Church. The head priest recently died, and has been replaced by a younger man named Richard Welker, who had only been in the priesthood for a few years.
Outside of town is the Bienville Asylum for the Insane. It was established in 1883. It is a large, three story building surrounded by a large, brick fence that goes ten feet into the air. It can hold anywhere between one hundred and two hundred people comfortably. It also houses anything from teens with anorexia to sociopaths, depending on the floor. The first floor is mostly for administration, with offices for all of the doctors and a break room for all other staff. The second floor if for eating disorders, suicide attempts and nervous breakdowns. The third floor is for the dangers and criminally insane people who have to stay locked up. The asylum is one of the towns bigger employers, with a lot of orderlies, doctors, and nurses needed.
Verde doesn't have a full hospital. It does have a clinic that is able to deal with minor injuries. You have to drive to New Orleans to get to a real hospital, though. It's about an hour away.