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The Sunshine Bridge in Donaldsville (pop. 7,605) commemorates the state song, You Are My Sunshine, written by former Gov. Jimmie Davis in 1940.

first appeared: 7/7/2002

Louisiana’s commercial fishing industry produces 25 percent of all the seafood in America. It holds the record for the greatest catch ever, 1.9 billion pounds in one year.

first appeared: 6/30/2002

The Republic of Texas Granite Marker on the Texas-Louisiana border is the only remaining demarcation post indicating the 1841 international boundary between the United States and Texas.

first appeared: 6/23/2002

The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, built in 1858, is the oldest church in Iberia Parish. Marks on some pews were made by the teeth of Union soldiers’ horses, which ate hay from them.

first appeared: 6/16/2002

Erected in 1699 to prevent Britain’s seizure of the Mississippi Valley, Fort de la Boulaye in Plaquemines Parish is considered the first white settlement in present-day Louisiana.

first appeared: 6/9/2002

Covington (pop. 8,483) was founded in 1813 by John Wharton Collins, a New Orleans merchant who laid out an unusual system of streets and squares with central lots and alleys popularly known as “ox lots.”

first appeared: 6/2/2002

The 1750 Parlange Plantation House in Pointe Coupee Parish is the country’s finest and least altered example of a French colonial plantation house. The two-story, raised cottage still belongs to the builder’s descendants.

first appeared: 5/26/2002

With a pictorial history of Louisiana’s 200-year-old sugar cane industry, the Jeanerette Museum in Jeanerette (pop. 5,997) also offers information on the planting and harvesting of sugar cane.

first appeared: 5/19/2002

The Stage Coach Inn, once the largest house in Gibsland (pop. 1,119), was built in 1847 by Rueben Drake, a town founder. Now a state historic site, it was used as a stagecoach stop for regular runs between Shreveport and Monroe.

first appeared: 5/12/2002

Magnolia Plantation in Natchitoches Parish is one of the most intact plantations in the South. It features a late 19th-century cotton gin and an 1830 screw cotton press.

first appeared: 5/5/2002

Crowley (pop. 14,225) claims the title of Rice Capital of America, with more rice mills than any other city in the country. The town hosts the International Rice Festival, which includes the crowning of the International Rice Queen.

first appeared: 4/28/2002

James Bowie, known for the Bowie knife, lived in Opelousas (pop. 22,860) from 1815 to 1824. A museum honoring the adventurer stands at the city’s eastern entrance and contains old pictures, guns, and other mementos.

first appeared: 4/21/2002

Houmas House in Darrow (pop. 1,090), built in 1840, features garçonnieres, a once common architectural element used as separate living quarters for a plantation owner’s son.

first appeared: 4/14/2002

Completed in the mid-1800s, Fort Livingston near Grand Isle (pop. 1,541) was named for Edward Livingston, Andrew Jackson’s secretary of state.

first appeared: 4/7/2002

The geographic center of Louisiana is in Avoyelles Parish, three miles southeast of Marksville.

first appeared: 3/31/2002

Chretien Point, a plantation near Sunset (pop. 2,352), still bears a Union bullet hole in one of its front doors. Its staircase was reproduced in the movie Gone With the Wind.

first appeared: 3/24/2002

Conservationist and author Caroline Dormon of Natchitoches Parish was the first woman employed in forestry in the United States. The tract of land she owned and called Briarwood is now a nature preserve and serves as a conservation education center.

first appeared: 3/17/2002

On a corner in New Iberia (pop. 32,623) stands a likeness of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Created by an unknown Roman sculptor around A.D. 127, the white marble statue weighs 3,000 pounds.

first appeared: 3/10/2002

In 1798, the first permanent settlement in Concordia Parish was started when Don Jose Vidal became the commandant of the new Post of Concord. In 1811, the Post of Concord became Vidalia (pop. 4,543).

first appeared: 3/3/2002

The Chitimacha Indian tribe is primarily located in St. Mary Parish. The tribe maintains a tribal office, casino, fish-processing plant, and school on its reservation, along with the Chitimacha Indian Museum.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

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