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re: What obscure piece of Louisiana history do you know?
Posted on 5/4/14 at 11:32 pm to Pectus
Posted on 5/4/14 at 11:32 pm to Pectus
Pretty much everyone knows this, but we are the only state to have parishes instead of counties. Everytime I refer to EBR parish all my buddies are like wtf is that? 
ETA: also, Parish comes from our past history when we were governed by the French and Spanish. The word is derived from the Old French word paroisee meaning "a dwelling abroad". Which is fitting since visiting Louisiana is like visiting another country (in a good way)
ETA: also, Parish comes from our past history when we were governed by the French and Spanish. The word is derived from the Old French word paroisee meaning "a dwelling abroad". Which is fitting since visiting Louisiana is like visiting another country (in a good way)
This post was edited on 5/4/14 at 11:35 pm
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Posted on 5/4/14 at 11:40 pm to beejon
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Check out the address.
ehh cant find it on google. maybe they changed the name or the road just does not exist anymore.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 11:46 pm to tigerfan84
I've looked all over and this is all I can find. Apparently, she's still alive and living in Natchez. This is from her sister's obituary.
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Ms. Leon Kirby Richardson, 78, of Nederland, Texas passed away in her sleep at Cypress Glen Nursing and Rehabilitation on July 8, 2011. Leon was born on November 13, 1932 at her parents home on Black River near Jonesville, La. to Kirby and Mary Alice Dayton Kirby.
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Survivors include one sister Alice Belle Zerby of Natchez Mississippi
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Posted on 5/4/14 at 11:47 pm to Fishwater
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-La Tech was suppose to be in Calhoun, La, but everyone on the train was drunk and they passed up Calhoun and stopped in Ruston.
FACT
Posted on 5/4/14 at 11:59 pm to adavis
quote:So her name ended up Alice Belle Kirby Zerby?
Survivors include one sister Alice Belle Zerby of Natchez Mississippi
I hope she got to see the Derby
Posted on 5/5/14 at 12:01 am to adavis
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adavis
So the woman in the obituary is the little girl in middle of the pic I posted on the last page.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 12:09 am to tigerfan84
Probably so. She would have been 6 or 7 when that picture was taken.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 12:14 am to adavis
its her. it says it on the right edge of the original pic. a better copy is on ebay.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 10:33 am to Gold Tiger
I've read this thread word for word and so far the only two things that I've never head of is the girl with 'powers' and the duel monument.
I've been to every part of this state and love the history. The more obscure the more I'm fascinated by it.
I've been to every part of this state and love the history. The more obscure the more I'm fascinated by it.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 10:42 am to NeverRains
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The guy who created the computer game, "The Sims", went to LSU and Louisiana Tech.
Went to my high school, Episcopal High School Baton Rouge.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 2:25 pm to elprez00
Baton Rouge was not part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 2:27 pm to heypaul
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heypaul
How can you mention grant parish not having a stop light but fail to mention the Colfax massacre.. April 13, 1873??
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On April 13, 1873, violence erupted in Colfax, Louisiana. The White League, a paramilitary group intent on securing white rule in Louisiana, clashed with Louisiana's almost all-black state militia. The resulting death toll was staggering. Only three members of the White League died. But some 100 black men were killed in the encounter. Of those, nearly half were murdered in cold blood after they had already surrendered.
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Prior to the war, white Southern Democrats had enjoyed a great deal of governmental power. But when the war ended, Democrats were no longer powerful. Northern Republicans controlled the nation's government. They placed federal troops in Southern cities to keep that control. Southerners deeply resented this imposition.
Two laws that Southern Democrats hated were the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to blacks and declared that no state was to deprive them of "life, liberty, or property." The Fifteenth Amendment prevented a state from denying the vote to any person because of their race. Together, these laws guaranteed blacks equal citizenship. Southern Democrats, however, feared that blacks would not only vote Republican, but would be considered equal to their white former masters.
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After Colfax, the federal government convicted only three whites for the murders. In the end, they were freed when the U.S. Supreme Court declared that they had been convicted unconstitutionally.
There were also two governors elected in 1872..
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Conflicts between Republicans and Democrats in Louisiana were particularly frequent in 1872. That year, the state election produced two governors, both claiming to be the legitimate one. When the federal government supported the Republican governor by sending federal troops to Louisiana, the white residents of the state refused to cooperate.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 2:33 pm to CENLALSUFAN
Gus Tinsley, All American at LSU in '35 and '36 taught high school math at Tara back in the 70's.
He was also the head coach at LSU after he played.
He was also the head coach at LSU after he played.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 2:41 pm to adavis
I actually went to school with a girl in Natchez named Drew Bell Zerby.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 2:51 pm to Traffic Circle
The CM tower (what it used to be called) in Lake Charles is the tallest building on I-10 between Houston and Baton Rouge.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 2:52 pm to missloutiger
The stretch of St. Landry parish west of Opelousas down 190 to Eunice was originally part of Evangeline parish. When Eunice lost the vote to Ville Platte for parish-seat of Evangeline parish, the property was annexed by St. Landry parish.
Another one from good ole 8th grade La. History class: Allen parish and Desoto parish courthouses are identical.
Another one from good ole 8th grade La. History class: Allen parish and Desoto parish courthouses are identical.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 2:55 pm to Pectus
For all of you Funroe guys, there is an interesting story about a construction crew unearthing a cast iron coffin from 1814 over by Bayou DiSiard with a hot little number perfectly preserved inside.
I didn't know there was much in the way of settlement round them parts way back in 1814. Then again, with 165 being built and Johnny's opening up numerous locations, you want to get in early on the land grab.
Interdasting.
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My father was working on the campus of what was then called Northeast Louisiana State College. Nearby a construction crew laying a water line to a home being constructed along Bayou DeSiard, off Lakeshore Drive, accidently hit a brick tomb or crypt and the entire enclosure collapsed, revealing a cast-iron casket which had a glass viewing window, protected by a removable cast-iron plate, over part of the top. The body inside the coffin was in perfect condition, so well preserved that even a wreath of magnolia blooms and leaves encircling her upper body was still intact.
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The coffin was taken to a Monroe funeral home the day it was unearthed where my parents, along with hundreds of others, went to view it that night.
I didn't know there was much in the way of settlement round them parts way back in 1814. Then again, with 165 being built and Johnny's opening up numerous locations, you want to get in early on the land grab.
Interdasting.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 3:22 pm to TheGreat318
I've heard that story also, but didn't realize it was pre civil war....
Pretty cool
I'd like add that La has a 'water fall'
It's south of Sicley Island
Pretty cool
I'd like add that La has a 'water fall'
It's south of Sicley Island
This post was edited on 5/5/14 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 5/5/14 at 3:32 pm to heypaul
My great great great grandfather was the first Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1846-1850.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 3:34 pm to Pectus
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