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What obscure piece of Louisiana history do you know?

Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:18 pm
Posted by Pectus
Internet
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:18 pm
Let's learn of random things about our state!
Posted by theunknownknight
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:18 pm to
my birthday
Posted by Respublica88
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:19 pm to
lake charles had a great fire of 1910

Posted by Doc Fenton
New York, NY
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:19 pm to
Huey P. Long had a dee-duct box that was never found.
Posted by colorchangintiger
Dan Carlin
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:20 pm to
I know way too much about the 1927 floods
Posted by Pectus
Internet
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:21 pm to
What particular city?
Posted by Hulkklogan
Baton Rouge, LA
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:21 pm to
That Opelousas was the capital for like... 6 months.
This post was edited on 5/3/14 at 11:22 pm
Posted by GarmischTiger
Humboldt County
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:21 pm to
Faron Young is from Shreveport.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:21 pm to
Monroe is named after the steamboat James Monroe, not the President James Monroe
Posted by John McClane
Member since Apr 2010
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:22 pm to
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Huey P. Long had a dee-duct box that was never found.


Weird. That was going to be mine
Posted by Doc Fenton
New York, NY
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:23 pm to
So then it is named after President James Monroe, just not directly.
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:24 pm to
quote:

Faron Young is from Shreveport
as is the Master of the Telecaster, James Burton

Posted by NewIberiaHaircut
Lafayette
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:24 pm to
quote:

Huey P. Long had a dee-duct box that was never found.



It's under The Steamboat house in New Iberia.
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:24 pm to
My great great great grandfather co founded a town in S.LA
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:25 pm to
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So then it is named after President James Monroe
no, it is named after a fricking boat
Posted by colorchangintiger
Dan Carlin
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:25 pm to
St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parish
This post was edited on 5/3/14 at 11:29 pm
Posted by beejon
University Of Louisiana Warhawks
Member since Nov 2008
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:25 pm to
Harrisonburg was considered for the new site of the Louisiana state capital when the legislature decided to move it from New Orleans after the Civil War.
Posted by theunknownknight
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
57230 posts
Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:26 pm to
quote:

What obscure piece of Louisiana history do you know?


That Texas > Louisiana
Posted by NeverRains
Texas
Member since Jun 2012
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:26 pm to
The guy who created the computer game, "The Sims", went to LSU and Louisiana Tech.
Posted by elprez00
Hammond, LA
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 5/3/14 at 11:26 pm to
Herman Johnson was the largest baby ever born in Louisiana.
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