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Organized in 1812, Half Moon Bluff Baptist Church in Franklinton (pop. 3,657) was the state’s first Baptist church.

first appeared: 6/13/2004

In 1896, Arpadhon in Livingston Parish was the largest rural Hungarian settlement in the United States.

first appeared: 6/6/2004

The Delta Music Museum in Ferriday (pop. 3,723), opened in 2002, applauds Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway Twitty, Mickey Gilley and other entertainers with hometown ties.

first appeared: 5/30/2004

Great Southern Lumber Co. operated the world’s largest pine sawmill from 1908 to 1938 and built the town of Bogalusa (pop. 13,365).

first appeared: 5/23/2004

Forests cover 13.8 million acres, or about 48 percent, of the state.

first appeared: 5/16/2004

When completed in 1909, Plaquemine Lock on the Mississippi River at Plaquemine (pop. 7,064) had the highest freshwater lift—51 feet—of any lock in the world.

first appeared: 5/9/2004

Founded by Confederate veterans in 1891, Confederate Memorial Museum in New Orleans is the state’s oldest museum.

first appeared: 5/2/2004

Enterprise Plantation, established in 1825 near Jeanerette (pop. 5,997), is the nation’s oldest working sugarcane plantation.

first appeared: 4/25/2004

Shell Keys National Wildlife Refuge is a tiny offshore islet made of shell fragments and used as a resting spot by various terns, gulls, and pelicans. Its size and shape change with passing storms.

first appeared: 4/18/2004

The Stansel Rice Co. calls its product popcorn rice because of the smell it emits while cooking. Visitors can tour the family-owned mill and gardens in Gueydan (pop. 1,598).

first appeared: 4/11/2004

The historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge in Mooringsport (pop. 833), built in 1914, is the state’s last surviving “vertical-lift” bridge designed by famed engineer J.A.L. Waddell.

first appeared: 4/4/2004

Jazz legend Louis Armstrong received his first music instruction on bugle and coronet while he was at a reform school in New Orleans in the early 1900s.

first appeared: 3/28/2004

The Louisiana Natural Heritage Program has developed a database on 162 rare animals in the state, from mollusks to mammals, more than half of which are considered imperiled or critically imperiled.

first appeared: 3/21/2004

Songwriter Stephen Foster’s only known visit to the Deep South was a honeymoon steamship ride to New Orleans in 1852.

first appeared: 3/14/2004

Rayne (pop. 8,502) bills itself as the Frog Capital of the World, and has frog murals painted along its Main Street. The reputation stems from the sale of local frog legs to gourmet restaurants throughout the country beginning in the 1880s.

first appeared: 3/7/2004

Much of the original Tarzan movie, Tarzan of the Apes, was filmed during August 1917 in Bayou Teche near Morgan City (pop. 14,531).

first appeared: 2/29/2004

Artichokes were introduced to America by French immigrants settling in the state in the early 1800s. Now virtually all artichokes grown commercially in the United States are grown in California.

first appeared: 2/22/2004

The 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest over-water highway bridge in the world.

first appeared: 2/15/2004

Louisiana Cajuns (slang for Acadians) are descendants of the French Acadians who were driven out of Canada in the 1700s when they wouldn’t swear allegiance to the King of England.

first appeared: 2/8/2004

The Saint Charles Ave. Street Railway in New Orleans is the oldest operating streetcar line in the world, running since 1835. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

first appeared: 2/1/2004

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