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Posted on 5/15/18 at 1:58 pm to blueridgeTiger
I own Ghost Soldiers. I guess I need to pull it off the shelf and give it a re-read.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 1:59 pm to White Roach
fricking chalmette Chalmette looks like New Orleans East and Port Sulphur had a baby
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Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:01 pm to PCRammer
100 octane gasoline was developed at the Standard Oil Refinery in Baton Rouge and was used by British planes during the Battle of Britain.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:09 pm to mylsuhat
jeebus i vividly remember that smell. I moved away from thibodaux when I was 12. If i saw the bagasse piles it meant we were going visit grandma.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:13 pm to celltech1981
There is a mill in Thibodaux as well.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:29 pm to dpd901
I lived about a mile from laurel valley until i was 12. I never knew that happened there.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:30 pm to PCRammer
Bogalusa is home of the Bogalusa Heart Study which began in 1972. It was also home to the world's largest sawmill and was founded by the Sullivan's who built the Great Southern Lumber Company. It was also the scene of some very violent civil rights struggles in the 60s.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:34 pm to Bryno1960
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Bogalusa is home of the Bogalusa Heart Study which began in 1972. It was also home to the world's largest sawmill and was founded by the Sullivan's who built the Great Southern Lumber Company. It was also the scene of some very violent civil rights struggles in the 60s.
Studio in the Country - Bogalusa, LA
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:36 pm to CaptainsWafer
Where? There was an old one down laurel valley road.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:38 pm to celltech1981
Green Bay is the toilet paper capital of the world.
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It was not until the popularity of indoor plumbing took off—and the pages of the previously used catalogues proved unflushable—that the paper mills of Green Bay turned their covetous eyes on the nation’s backsides. Perhaps it was not surprising that Green Bay should have achieved such coprophilic success. After all, the area had originally been named La Baie des Puants, “The Bay of Stinkards,” by early French explorers because of the odiferous green algae in the water. Whatever the case, in 1901, Northern Paper Mills of Green Bay issued the first “sanitary tissue” called Northern Tissue. Each pack had 1,000 sheets of 4x10 inch paper that were pierced with a wire loop to hang from a nail.
The product was such a success that by 1920 Northern Paper Mills was the world’s largest producer of bath tissue. Competitors sprung up and production of toilet paper doubled between 1925 and 1935. Such was the success of the toilet paper industry that it helped Green Bay avoid the worst effects of the Great Depression.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:43 pm to PCRammer
Governor Tillman (yes the same Tillman that has a building named after him at Clemson) caused a riot to occur when he restricted the sale of alcohol. The racetrack built here was done so to avoid disturbing the pond behind it. There is one house, downtown, that Sherman did not burn because he liked it so much.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:43 pm to White Roach
I remember them talking about changing the name when I was a kid in the 80s or somewhere around there.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:47 pm to meeple
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Somewhere amid the twisted, moss covered oaks of Haaswood lies something deeper and darker than soft marsh grasses and swampy pools that catch the moon.
I grew up in Haaswood in the 90's
Posted on 5/15/18 at 2:54 pm to PCRammer
Hometown was originally named after Aaron Burr (Burrville) but changed its name after he was charged with Treason for conspiring to create a new country in part of the Louisiana Purchase. The new name honored Governor Clinton of New York...since they thought nobody would bring shame to the name Clinton.
They integrated their high school in 1956, and protesters came into town and started to riot. The National Guard came in and imposed martial law...there was unrest for the next 2 years until someone came in and blew up the high school.
BTW...it was also considered the freshwater pearling capital of the US before TVA dammed up the river, killing off the muscles in the early 1930's.
They integrated their high school in 1956, and protesters came into town and started to riot. The National Guard came in and imposed martial law...there was unrest for the next 2 years until someone came in and blew up the high school.
BTW...it was also considered the freshwater pearling capital of the US before TVA dammed up the river, killing off the muscles in the early 1930's.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 3:00 pm to celltech1981
Lafourche Sugars is off of Hwy 1 and West Thibodaux Bypass, on the west side of town as you’re heading towards Labadieville.
Caldwell Plantation had an operating mill until 2001/2002 I believe. A little farther out of town off of Hwy 308.
Caldwell Plantation had an operating mill until 2001/2002 I believe. A little farther out of town off of Hwy 308.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 3:02 pm to White Roach
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Have you read that Leander Perez biography? If so, would you recommend it?
Yes and yes
Posted on 5/15/18 at 3:10 pm to PCRammer
A couple of miles from my farm is the location that Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men received their parole. They were the last troops east of the Mississippi to surrender. I drive by this monument several times a week.
There is also a small cemetery about a mile from this monument where over 200 confederate and union soldiers were brought after the battle of Shiloh. Most are unmarked but a few of the officers graves are named. The cannon in the cemetery was thrown in the river to keep it from falling into union hands when the surrender was happening. Later the citizens of Gainesville retrieved the cannon and placed it in the cemetery as a memorial. At the time Gainesville was the third largest town in Alabama (Pop. 4000 then now 208).
There is also a small cemetery about a mile from this monument where over 200 confederate and union soldiers were brought after the battle of Shiloh. Most are unmarked but a few of the officers graves are named. The cannon in the cemetery was thrown in the river to keep it from falling into union hands when the surrender was happening. Later the citizens of Gainesville retrieved the cannon and placed it in the cemetery as a memorial. At the time Gainesville was the third largest town in Alabama (Pop. 4000 then now 208).
Posted on 5/15/18 at 3:11 pm to PCRammer
The Marx Brothers once owned a chicken farm about a mile from where my parents live.
Their mother suggested the idea because she heard farmers could avoid being drafted into WWI.
Their mother suggested the idea because she heard farmers could avoid being drafted into WWI.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 3:12 pm to CaptainsWafer
I lived off of 308 towards St. Charles Boromeo. I was just a kid so I don't remember any mills other than laurel valley and the raceland one.
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