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Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:15 pm to Burt Reynolds
The sandbar duel was at Natchez and Bowies actions there were questionable at best.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:18 pm to heypaul
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Grant Parish does not have a traffic light,
Neither does St. Helena
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:20 pm to bencoleman
quote:phish fans vs drake fans
The sandbar duel was at Natchez
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:21 pm to High C
"A parish coroner has the only local legal authority to arrest the sheriff. "
Not so now. Law was changed long ago. Any law enforcement officer can arrest a sheriff if they have a warrant or make a citizen's arrest for a felony, if they follow the law.
Not so now. Law was changed long ago. Any law enforcement officer can arrest a sheriff if they have a warrant or make a citizen's arrest for a felony, if they follow the law.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:24 pm to FreeState
"Let's clarify that it is difficult to conclude how many blacks fought as soldiers and how many were actually body servants. Very few free blacks chose to fight willingly"
From the Isle of Brevelle, near Cloutierville, Natchitoches Parish, was a unit of over 100 free blacks who formed their own Confederate company and served in the Confederacy. Most were slave owners.
From the Isle of Brevelle, near Cloutierville, Natchitoches Parish, was a unit of over 100 free blacks who formed their own Confederate company and served in the Confederacy. Most were slave owners.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:47 pm to FreeState
The entire original location of the town of Vidalia now sits in the river bed. After the great flood of 27 the corps of engineers used dynamite to alter the course of the river. Not sure if this was an intentional consequence. Vidalia was moved to its current location. Homes and buildings that could be moved were. Some of the oldest buildings in town currently were moved from the original location.
The river after the blasting occured also took all 12 or so blocks of Natchez under the hill except for the closest to the bluff, silver street, which still stands today. The city of Natchez is currently seeking "reparations" from the corps damage in the form of various restoration projects.
The river after the blasting occured also took all 12 or so blocks of Natchez under the hill except for the closest to the bluff, silver street, which still stands today. The city of Natchez is currently seeking "reparations" from the corps damage in the form of various restoration projects.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:06 pm to Pectus
Hank Williams Jr was born in the charity hospital in Shreveport and my great great grandfather founded a town on I-20 in Lincoln parish.
And, according to my brother and his genealogical research, freed slaves from my family's plantation started Grambling University.
And, according to my brother and his genealogical research, freed slaves from my family's plantation started Grambling University.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:07 pm to REB BEER
I-10 is actually I-52 in Louisiana
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:12 pm to Pectus
I think there are whore tunnels used by one of the long governors downtown.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:12 pm to SuperSoakher
my great-great-great grandmother's brother was "Pepe" Llull (sometimes spelled as "Liulla") who onwed a cemetery in NOLA (I believe the one across from Commander's Palace where he is buried)...
anyway, the joke at the time was that he had to own a cemetery because he needed a place to bury all the people he killed in duels...
anyway, the joke at the time was that he had to own a cemetery because he needed a place to bury all the people he killed in duels...
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:20 pm to vl100butch
Where UNO stands today, there was a POW camp during WW2. Some of the Italians held there married local girls and stayed in NOLA after the war.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:22 pm to Pectus
Didn't see this listed respecting William Tecumseh Sherman. Maybe it's not so obscure.
And this:
Also, if anyone has a photo of it, I'd love to see where Sherman's portrait hangs at LSU. Never confirmed that it hung facing men's room at Hill Memorial...
quote:
In 1859, Sherman accepted a job as the first superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy in Pineville, a position he sought at the suggestion of Major D. C. Buell and secured because of General George Mason Graham.[25] He proved an effective and popular leader of that institution, which would later become Louisiana State University (LSU).[26] Colonel Joseph P. Taylor, the brother of the late President Zachary Taylor, declared that "if you had hunted the whole army, from one end of it to the other, you could not have found a man in it more admirably suited for the position in every respect than Sherman."
And this:
quote:
After the end of the Civil War, in April 1865, the seminary was again reopened on October 2, 1865, with Col. David F. Boyd as superintendent. Following the war, General Sherman donated two cannons to the institution. These cannons had been captured from Confederate forces and had been used to start the war when fired at Fort Sumter, SC. They are still currently on display in front of LSU's Military Science/Aerospace Studies Building.
Also, if anyone has a photo of it, I'd love to see where Sherman's portrait hangs at LSU. Never confirmed that it hung facing men's room at Hill Memorial...
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:30 pm to nelatf
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Read The Murders of Mer Rouge....
I was looking for a better link than the one I posted. The way the story as told when I was a kid and there were still people around who lived through it, was that there was a brothel on HWY 2 headed out of Mer Rouge towards Oak Grove, full of extraordinarily beautiful mixed race girls. Captain Skipworth's niece's husband left her and ran off with one of the working girls, which led the Captain to burn down the brothel, (maybe with some of the girls inside), which was then followed by escalating retaliations for two years prior to the roadblock and kidnapping that became a national story. Local lore says there was a full fledged shooting war between Bastrop and Mer Rouge for over two years, with 20+ killed. Not much on the web about it though.
FWIW, I am a directly descendant of the Dr. McKoin mentioned in the article and am related to or at least have mutual cousins with about nine other families mentioned.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:43 pm to adavis
Cool link, I'm from Sicily island too and I know u and ur momma and 'em
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:43 pm to shinerfan
Who knew the OT was frequented by so many of royal bloodlines?
And who like to announce their titles in their posts as well?
Name-droppers? The OT has title-droppers.
And who like to announce their titles in their posts as well?
Name-droppers? The OT has title-droppers.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:47 pm to USMCTiger03
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Who knew the OT was frequented by so many of royal bloodlines?
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:51 pm to USMCTiger03
A smalltown doctor and Klan leader isn't exactly royalty. Its a thread about obscure pieces of La history, it shouldn't be surprising that people have family connections to their stories.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:52 pm to USMCTiger03
Thank you for that informative post, I have really enjoyed this thread as it has mentioned several incidents/facts that I didn't know about my own hometown and general area.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 3:07 pm to Kafka
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The 64 parishes of Louisiana were mapped out so the parish seat was no more than a day's horse drawn buggy ride away, from the farthest point
Yeah I am not buying this.
quote:
what idiot drew up tangipahoa
Tangi was created from several other parishes. Ponchatoula and Hammond actually were in Livingston at some point for a short period of time. Amite was in St. Helena I think.
The area of the northshore. St Tammany, Washington, Tangipohoa, St Helena, Livingston were a part the Republic of West Florida before joining the United States. It was its own independent country for like 4 months.
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