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re: Mobile and the MS Gulf Coast should be a part of Louisiana.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:35 am to Methuselah
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:35 am to Methuselah
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I'm pretty sure a good stretch of the coast from the Apalachicola River to East Baton Rouge Parish were part of something called West Florida at one time. They still call the area north of Lake Pontchartrain the Florida Parishes.
Republic of West Florida, capitol was St. Francisville and it lasted less than 90 days.
For some odd reason LA makes a big deal out of it.
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Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:06 am to cave canem
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Republic of West Florida, capitol was St. Francisville and it lasted less than 90 days.
For some odd reason LA makes a big deal out of it.
While true, I imagine it would be news to most people in Louisiana that there is a chunk of the state that wasn’t included in the Louisiana Purchase. Very interesting little subset of history for (what would become) the state before, during, and after the revolutionary war.
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