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Centenary College of Louisiana in Jackson (pop. 4,130), the oldest college west of the Mississippi, traces its origins to The College of Louisiana, founded in 1826 in Jackson, and Centenary College of Brandon Springs, Miss., founded in 1845, which moved to the vacant Jackson campus after the former college closed.

first appeared: 9/30/2001

One of America’s most famous churches, the 1794 St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, is also the oldest. The original 1718 church building was destroyed by a hurricane in 1728, and the second was leveled by fire 60 years later.

first appeared: 9/23/2001

Louisiana State Arboretum in Ville Platte (pop. 8,145) was the first state-supported arboretum in the United States. It contains almost every type of native Louisiana vegetation on more than 300 acres.

first appeared: 9/16/2001

When the state seceded from the Union in 1861, Winn Parish (pop. 16,894) briefly seceded from Louisiana.

first appeared: 9/9/2001

Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site in Natchitoches (pop. 17,865) is an exact replica of a French fort built in 1716. Located a few hundred yards from the original fort site, the replica is based on a drawing made in 1733.

first appeared: 9/2/2001

The Evangeline Oak in St. Martinville (pop. 6,989) is named for the fictional meeting place of Evangeline and Gabriel, characters in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem Evangeline.

first appeared: 8/26/2001

The Destrehan Plantation in New Orleans is the oldest documented plantation estate in the lower Mississippi Valley. Built in 1787 in French Colonial style, it was remodeled to Greek Revival style in the 1830s.

first appeared: 8/19/2001

Gueydan (pop. 1,598) is known as the “Duck Capital of America” in recognition of its abundance of waterfowl. Since 1977, the Duck Festival has been held there the weekend before Labor Day.

first appeared: 8/12/2001

The town of Jean Lafitte (pop. 1,507) was once a hideaway for pirates. Its namesake was a French-born Louisiana privateer and smuggler who helped U.S. forces in the Battle of New Orleans at the end of the War of 1812.

first appeared: 8/5/2001

The 1805 plantation home known as Winter Quarters in Newellton (pop. 1,482) once served as a makeshift Union hospital during the Civil War.

first appeared: 7/29/2001

The E.D. White Historic Site is located in Labadieville (pop.1, 821.) The early 1800s plantation home was the residence for Gov. Edward Douglas White and his son, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglas White Jr.

first appeared: 7/22/2001

Louisiana is a relatively low-lying state. Its highest point is 535 feet at Driskill Mountain in Bienville Parish (pop. 15,800). It is the country’s third-lowest high point.

first appeared: 7/15/2001

Mounds built in Watson Brake in Ouachita Parish more than 5,000 years ago are believed to be the oldest earthen structures built by humans in North America. Such mounds were often burial sites.

first appeared: 7/8/2001

Fort Polk is named in honor of the Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, the first Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Louisiana. The fort was established in 1941.

first appeared: 7/1/2001

Old Town Hall Museum in Pineville (pop. 14,315) is dedicated to municipal government. The museum previously housed all of the city offices, including the fire station, city court, jail, library, mayor’s office, and police department.

first appeared: 6/24/2001

Rhoda Holly Singleton Mixon founded Tangipahoa (pop. 600) in 1806, after having traveled from South Carolina with her daughter and some slaves.

first appeared: 6/17/2001

From 1948 to 1987, Russell Long occupied the Senate seat that was held by both his father, Huey P. Long (1932-35), and then his mother, Rose McConnell Long (1936-37).

first appeared: 6/10/2001

Herman Frasch, a chemist who lived in Sulphur (pop. 20,125), invented a hot water and air process that allowed sulfur deposits in Louisiana and east Texas to be mined at an affordable cost. The Frasch Process was patented in 1891.

first appeared: 6/3/2001

More than 20,000 roses of every color—said to be “the nation’s largest collection of hybrid roses”—bloom in 60 gardens at the American Rose Center, the headquarters for the American Rose Society, in Shreveport.

first appeared: 5/27/2001

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, the son of a Mississippi white planter and a freed slave, served as a delegate to the Republican state convention of 1867. He became lieutenant governor in 1868 and governor in 1872.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

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