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re: What obscure piece of Louisiana history do you know?
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:06 am to Rabbs and QStick
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:06 am to Rabbs and QStick
Wasn't there a pretty awful internment camp in N LA during the civil war?
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Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:07 am to Michael T. Tiger
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In 1872, Louisiana had its first Black governor--P.B.S. Pinchback
When I was a kid I would hear the older people discussing him, I don't know what he did but the hatred was still strong almost a hundred years later.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:08 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.
Rumor has it that local fishermen made a lot of $$$$ supplying them.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:12 am to bencoleman
Alix de Morainville settled here during the colonial period. She was a French noble who was targeted by the French Revolution. When the word came that the revolutionaries were on the way, one of her peasants hatched a plot to rescue her--he would marry her, and they would leave the country under the pretense of him looking for work. Once they arrived at a safe harbor, they would have the marriage annulled. She went along with the plan until they arrived in England, at which point she told him she wanted to stay married. They eventually came across the pond.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:14 am to PierPunk
How the Peltier family from thibodaux screwed ALOT of people of their mineral(oil) rights. a majority of the poor folks could not read, but signed an "X" on papers that were false promises. Later, in the 60's, a peltier senator changed a legislature procedure at the last minute to make it a 3/4 majority vote for any parish to change/split boundry lines. otherwise, thibodaux would be screwed out of all the oil revenue that lower Lafourche parish produced. f... thibodaux, f... the peltiers.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:17 am to bencoleman
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When I was a kid I would hear the older people discussing him, I don't know what he did but the hatred was still strong almost a hundred years later.
It wasn't much. He was only in office 35 days, but was elected as a State Senator.
As Senate president pro tempore, in 1871 Pinchback succeeded to the position as acting lieutenant governor upon the death of Oscar Dunn, the first elected African-American lieutenant governor of a U.S. state.
In 1872, the legislature filed impeachment charges against the incumbent Republican governor, Henry Clay Warmoth due to disputes over certifying returns of the disputed gubernatorial election, in which both Democrat John McEnery and Republican William Kellogg claimed victory. Trying to support a centrist fusion government at a time of divisions among Republicans, Warmoth had supported his appointed return board, which certified McEnergy as winner. Republicans opposed this outcome, and appointed their own returns board, which certified Kellogg. The election had been marked by violence and fraud. State law required that Warmoth step aside until his impeachment case was tried. Pinchback took the oath as acting governor on December 9, 1872, and served for about six weeks until the end of Warmoth's term.[1] Warmoth was not convicted, and the charges were eventually dropped by the legislature.
He was director of NOLA public schools as well.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:29 am to 70345
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How the Peltier family from thibodaux screwed ALOT of people of their mineral(oil) rights. a majority of the poor folks could not read, but signed an "X" on papers that were false promises. Later, in the 60's, a peltier senator changed a legislature procedure at the last minute to make it a 3/4 majority vote for any parish to change/split boundry lines. otherwise, thibodaux would be screwed out of all the oil revenue that lower Lafourche parish produced. f... thibodaux, f... the peltiers.
Where did you get this from?
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:40 am to pwejr88
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What obscure piece of Louisiana history do you know?
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Louisiana was sold by France to the US in the Louisiana Purchase. It sold for $15 million.
Gee, thanks for that obscure piece of Louisiana history.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:47 am to Pectus
The origins of the red stick in BR was a cut from a massive cypress tree growing at the top of the Indian mound on campus. The other parts of the tree produced several canoes which were used to raid a rival tribe over territorial issues relating to the red sticks location.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:50 am to cajuntiger07
Where did you get this from?
This is common knowledge on the Bayou. as education progressed, descendents from the screwed used said "X" documents in court to reverse the fraud. In the 60's, Dick Guidry: (rep. dist 54) had a house bill ready to pass with only simple majority to split LaFourche until the peltiers learned of it.
This is common knowledge on the Bayou. as education progressed, descendents from the screwed used said "X" documents in court to reverse the fraud. In the 60's, Dick Guidry: (rep. dist 54) had a house bill ready to pass with only simple majority to split LaFourche until the peltiers learned of it.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 7:58 am to 70345
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How the Peltier family from thibodaux screwed ALOT of people of their mineral(oil) rights. a majority of the poor folks could not read, but signed an "X" on papers that were false promises. Later, in the 60's, a peltier senator changed a legislature procedure at the last minute to make it a 3/4 majority vote for any parish to change/split boundry lines. otherwise, thibodaux would be screwed out of all the oil revenue that lower Lafourche parish produced. f... thibodaux, f... the peltiers.
sounds like your grandparents were poor and illiterate
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:00 am to Michael T. Tiger
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State law required that Warmoth step aside until his impeachment case was tried. Pinchback took the oath as acting governor on December 9, 1872, and served for about six weeks until the end of Warmoth's term.[1] Warmoth was not convicted, and the charges were eventually dropped by the legislature.
A majority of the state Senate wanted to convict but they didn't have 2/3. So the ones who wanted to convict skipped town to make sure there was no quorum and the case would never be resolved.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:05 am to Pectus
BR>Nola
Few people know this fact
Few people know this fact
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:06 am to aaronb023
sounds like your grandparents were poor and illiterate
such ignorance. such condescension. you a peltier?
such ignorance. such condescension. you a peltier?
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:08 am to 70345
Harrisonburg was almost the state capital, failing by one vote.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:11 am to 70345
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This is common knowledge on the Bayou. as education progressed, descendents from the screwed used said "X" documents in court to reverse the fraud. In the 60's, Dick Guidry: (rep. dist 54) had a house bill ready to pass with only simple majority to split LaFourche until the peltiers learned of it.
Yeah you seem pretty mad about it. Wha t did the peltiers do to stop it?
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:12 am to 70345
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you a peltier?
brother in law once removed...whats it to ya chief?
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:14 am to Bestbank Tiger
I could see where their could be some hard feelings, I am sure the democrats thought the republicans were stealing the election.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:16 am to bencoleman
First airport in LA was at Mansfield.
Posted on 5/4/14 at 8:16 am to Pectus
The greatest collection of wealth the world has ever seen posts on an lsu related message board.
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