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re: Tell me something I don't know about St Tammany Parish?
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:32 pm to Mrs. Amaro
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:32 pm to Mrs. Amaro
Has more banks than any other parish.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:35 pm to OceanTiger
St Tammany has the least amount of loan defaults than any other parish
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:37 pm to Mrs. Amaro
Rolling papers are over $5.00 a pack every where
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:37 pm to OceanTiger
I worked for two banks headquartered in St Tammany Parish and both failed. I wouldn't say that's a good thing.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:38 pm to Mr. Hangover
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STP also boasts the world's second largest population of direct Nazi descendants outside of Germany
What is your source for that? If true...
There was a good bit of activity around here during the Civil War. Madisonville was a hotbed of blackmarket and Confederate partisan activity, and saw a handful of skirmishes. There were a lot of Union troop movements between there and Ponchatoula, mainly due to the railroad in Ponchatoula. Madisonville was even shelled by a Union gunboat at one point.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:38 pm to Mrs. Amaro
They have 460 patrol cars
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:39 pm to Mrs. Amaro
It's about 46 degrees in the holding cell
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:41 pm to Hammertime
Which one? With you knowing them apprenlty there isn't much to do except fricking and fighting cause he's related to everybody and I know to check your knuckles
This post was edited on 3/29/17 at 11:50 pm
Posted on 3/30/17 at 3:11 am to Pechon
Common denominator? You're corporate poison
Posted on 3/30/17 at 4:01 am to Mrs. Amaro
My brother from another mother lives there.
This post was edited on 3/30/17 at 4:15 am
Posted on 3/30/17 at 4:07 am to TheFonz
Interesting, I have looked for books about the civil war in STT and surrounding area but never had any luck. Any that you know of that you would recommend?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 5:16 am to Jim Rockford
Don't bring all of those problems north of you, we have enough already.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 5:24 am to GREENHEAD22
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As of the 2010 census, the population was 233,740,[2] making it the fifth-most populous parish in Louisiana. The parish seat is Covington.[3] The parish was founded in 1810.[4]
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St. Tammany Parish is included in the New Orleans–Metairie, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. St. Tammany Parish is one of the fastest-growing parishes in the state, along with Livingston and Ascension.[5]
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St. Tammany Parish is colloquially referred to as part of the "Northshore" or "North Shore" throughout metropolitan New Orleans, owing to its location on Lake Pontchartrain. It is the most affluent parish in the state, has a nationally-recognized system of public schools, and is the most politically conservative parish in the New Orleans region.
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In 1699, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, a French explorer, was the first European to visit the area of present-day St. Tammany Parish. While exploring lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, Iberville wrote in his journal, "The place where I am is one of the prettiest I have seen, fine level ground bare of canes. The land north of the lakes is a country of pine trees mixed with hard woods. The soil is sandy and many tracks of buffalo and deer can be seen."
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After France was defeated in the French and Indian War, St. Tammany (along with the other future "Florida Parishes") became part of British West Florida.
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n 1810, President James Madison claimed West Florida as part of Louisiana and sent William C. C. Claiborne to claim the territory. Claiborne established the boundaries of the Florida Parishes. He created St. Tammany Parish and named it after the Delaware Indian Chief Tamanend (c.1628-1698), who made peace with William Penn and was generally renowned for his goodness.[7] Among the nine Louisiana parishes (counties) named for "saints" (see "List of parishes in Louisiana"), St. Tammany is the only one whose eponym is not a saint as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, the ecclesiastical parishes of which formed the basis for civil parishes prior to statehood. In fact, Tamanend is not known to have been a Christian, and was certainly not a Roman Catholic. However, he became popularly revered as an "American patron saint"[8] in the post-Revolutionary period (long after his death).
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Mandeville was founded in 1834 by Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville and was developed as a health resort for wealthy New Orleanians, because it was believed that ozone was both salutary and naturally emitted by the numerous trees in the area (both beliefs later proven false), giving rise to an early name for the region — the "Ozone Belt".
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Posted on 3/30/17 at 6:10 am to tigersownall
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Used to be a car dealership called letsche chevorolet.
Lesche (sp?) Pontiac sponsored one of the Little League teams in Covington. Other teams in the league that I remember were the Jaycees, KCs (Knights of Columbus), and Western Auto. The Western Auto team was mostly kids from Madisonville because they didn't have enough kids for a league. The teams used to play at the field by the Fairgrounds.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 6:12 am to Mrs. Amaro
Their married women at promiscuous, based on my experience.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 6:33 am to glassman
Louisiana's greatest living artist lives there. In all places, Slidell.
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Who?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 6:38 am to SamuelClemens
IIRC, Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville was a free man of color that was the largest slave owner in St. Tammany Parish. I believe his plantation is where current day Fountainebleu State Park is located. If all of this is true, that would mean the high school is named after a plantation owned by a free man of color (that is a mind blowing moment for SJWs). He is also obviously who Mandeville is named after. Supposedly he lost most of the land in a craps game. Im no local historian, so if something is wrong, feel free to correct my memory as it's been awhile since I've reviewed any of this stuff.
This post was edited on 3/30/17 at 6:51 am
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