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re: What obscure piece of Louisiana history do you know?
Posted on 5/4/14 at 12:54 am to Bullfrog
Posted on 5/4/14 at 12:54 am to Bullfrog
quote:My favorite (whether apocryphal or not) is when he and Gladstone were debating in parliament over buying some island in the Pacific. Gladstone opposed the idea, calling the island a worthless hell on Earth, etc etc etc, finishing up by saying "This filthy, God-forsaken place is fit only for", then turning to sneer at Disraeli, "Jews and lunatics".quote:He got all the cool lines
I've also seen Disraeli credited with it.
A smiling Disraeli leaped to his feet and yelled out happily, "Then you and I must go there immediately!"
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Posted on 5/4/14 at 12:55 am to Kafka
Good stuff 
Posted on 5/4/14 at 12:56 am to Pectus
The KKK had their first meeting on the LSU football field!
Posted on 5/4/14 at 12:58 am to lsu480
quote:I believe it was founded in Pulaski TN in 1865
The KKK had their first meeting on the LSU football field!
and no I wasn't there
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:01 am to Pectus
New Orleans & Baton Rouge will not be on the Mississippi river after the control structure at the bottom of Concordia Parish, fails.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:03 am to Bullfrog
quote:However this will not cause a problem as all traffic will be handled by the BR loop
New Orleans & Baton Rouge will not be on the Mississippi river after the control structure at the bottom of Concordia Parish, fails
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:04 am to Kafka
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Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:07 am to pwejr88
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He was also told that LSU could not have a football team so he built the dorms in the shape of a horseshoe and the football team was born.
LSU was playing football 50 years before Long was in office. Your story is sort of true. Gen. Middleton had enough money to build a library or close in the north endzone. He built the library. Money allotted for new dorms was used to enclose the NEZ by making them dorms. (my story my be a little off as well)
This post was edited on 5/4/14 at 1:11 am
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:13 am to Pectus
After the civil war in Norh Louisiana the Union sent a bunch of troops to Shreveport, last capital of the confederacy to keep the peace. Unfortunately they sent in a bunch of black troops as well to make the point.
This helped lead to an Ex Slave nominally named 'the Captain' to build a group of former slaves that eventually took over the Brownlee plantation north of Bossier City who decided that the owners had wronged a black man and were threatening to string up the owner while keeping the women hostage. He had a few hundred 'troops' under his command.
A group of ex Confederate veterans numbering in the teens descended on them and surrounded the plantation. They sent in a white flag to parlay, told The Captain to release his prisoner. He didn't.
They then began picking off the members of his army and according to state records killed over 200 blacks that were there to support this. Ultimately it took the Union troops from Shreveport coming in to stop the killing. The hostages were released.
This ultimately led to increased racial tension that eventually became a period called the Bossier N'word hunt where most blacks in the parish were chased out or killed. State records on this in the archive don't have a firm number on how many were killed but they estimate it was more than a thousand.
This legacy has lasted to this day in terms of the difference in demographics between Caddo and Bossier parishes.
This helped lead to an Ex Slave nominally named 'the Captain' to build a group of former slaves that eventually took over the Brownlee plantation north of Bossier City who decided that the owners had wronged a black man and were threatening to string up the owner while keeping the women hostage. He had a few hundred 'troops' under his command.
A group of ex Confederate veterans numbering in the teens descended on them and surrounded the plantation. They sent in a white flag to parlay, told The Captain to release his prisoner. He didn't.
They then began picking off the members of his army and according to state records killed over 200 blacks that were there to support this. Ultimately it took the Union troops from Shreveport coming in to stop the killing. The hostages were released.
This ultimately led to increased racial tension that eventually became a period called the Bossier N'word hunt where most blacks in the parish were chased out or killed. State records on this in the archive don't have a firm number on how many were killed but they estimate it was more than a thousand.
This legacy has lasted to this day in terms of the difference in demographics between Caddo and Bossier parishes.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:27 am to Captain Rumbeard
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This legacy has lasted to this day in terms of the difference in demographics between Caddo and Bossier parishes.
Interesting. I always thought it was the Air Force Base.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:35 am to Zappas Stache
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:45 am to Kafka
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Kafka
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half -- my father was Kenyan
Can't wait to get you out of the White House.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:46 am to stealthy1
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German U-Boats off the mouth of Bayou Lafourche in WWII. The residents off the coast could hear the sailors on the boats talking in German over the shortwave.
My grandpa remembers having blackouts on Grand Isle because there was German subs right off the coast
Posted on 5/4/14 at 1:52 am to Kafka
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I believe it was founded in Pulaski TN in 1865
and no I wasn't there
True but their first meeting was on LSUs football field and I was there!
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:04 am to lsu480
The town of Eros was once as big or bigger than Monroe. In 1920 a tornado hit the town and destroyed the saw mill. There was a bank, newpaper, doctor offices and hotels there. The brick bank vault stood for years at the basket ball court. Now the populations is less than 100.
The town of Vernon was the parish seat of Jackson parish. The bank exploded due to a gas leak and blew money everywhere. They are still finding old coins in the area but most have been found with metal detectors.
There is a confedrate soldiers grave on the side of the road going to Alabama landing on the Ouachita river.
The town of Vernon was the parish seat of Jackson parish. The bank exploded due to a gas leak and blew money everywhere. They are still finding old coins in the area but most have been found with metal detectors.
There is a confedrate soldiers grave on the side of the road going to Alabama landing on the Ouachita river.
This post was edited on 5/4/14 at 2:09 am
Posted on 5/4/14 at 2:15 am to Kafka
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Are you talking about Judah Benjamin? According to Wiki he was a US Senator, but not Lt Gov
Judah and the Lt Governor were cousins.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 6:11 am to BigBlueHog
St. Martin Parish is split because it is older than the other south-central parishes. The others were carved out... No one wanted the lower portion, so it stayed part of St. Martin.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 6:25 am to Shreveport318
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The US held Nazi POWs in Ruston during WWII.
It's sad I went to tech and didn't ever know this.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 6:58 am to Rabbs and QStick
In 1872, Louisiana had its first Black governor--P.B.S. Pinchback.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:03 am to Rabbs and QStick
They were kept all over. They had some in several locations in SWLA. Mom said they would wave to them in the mornings as they passed in a truck to work the rice fields.
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