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The state’s lieutenant governor also serves as head of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.

first appeared: 1/25/2004

On Memorial Day, July 4th, Veterans Day, Labor Day, and other special occasions, about 350 American flags fly along Highway 15 in Winnsboro (pop. 5,344), giving it the nickname, “Stars and Stripes Capital of Louisiana.”

first appeared: 1/18/2004

The state contains more than 6,000 square miles of water surface, and more than 40 percent of all coastal marshland in America—which is good news for the state bird, the pelican.

first appeared: 1/11/2004

Only Alaska and Louisiana have no counties. Louisiana has parishes, and Alaska has no intrastate divisions.

first appeared: 1/4/2004

Students parade the state’s largest flag—80 feet by 53 feet—before football games at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

first appeared: 12/28/2003

The first parcel of land for City Park in New Orleans was acquired in 1854. With 1,500 acres, it is one of the nation’s oldest and largest city parks.

first appeared: 12/21/2003

Choosing the perfect Christmas tree takes time at Louisiana’s Christmas Forest in Zachary (pop. 11,275). The South’s largest choose-and-cut tree farm sells 7,000 trees each season.

first appeared: 12/14/2003

Miles of bonfires along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish (pop. 21,216) light the way for Papa Noel—a Cajun version of Santa Claus—on Christmas Eve, a tradition since the 1800s.

first appeared: 12/7/2003

The Louisiana State University Herbarium in Baton Rouge contains more than 165,000 preserved plant specimens, including a collection of 25,000 fungi.

first appeared: 11/30/2003

The grave of an unknown Confederate soldier, tended by locals for nearly 100 years, earned official recognition in 1962 as the Rebel State Historic Site. The site near Marthaville includes the Louisiana Country Music Museum.

first appeared: 11/23/2003

The only place in the world where soil conditions are right for growing perique tobacco is along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish. The pungent tobacco is usually blended with other tobaccos.

first appeared: 11/16/2003

Opened in 2000, the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans traces America’s role in World War II and includes a reproduction Higgins boat used for carrying platoons to shore.

first appeared: 11/9/2003

Rice farmer Robert Thevis of Simmesport (pop. 2,239) is the 2003 Louisiana Farmer of the Year.

first appeared: 11/2/2003

According to legend, Westwego (pop. 10,763) earned its name in 1870 because railroad cars crossed the Mississippi River there through canal locks, then were reunited on land where trainmen yelled “west we go.”

first appeared: 10/26/2003

Chimp Haven, a 200-acre sanctuary and retirement home for chimpanzees used in federal biomedical research, is being built in Shreveport. The National Institutes of Health awarded $19 million to the project.

first appeared: 10/19/2003

Fitness guru Richard Simmons has created a feast of weight-loss related products, including 30 videos and nine books. He was born in 1948 in New Orleans.

first appeared: 10/12/2003

In the 1700s, the Natchitoches and Caddo Indians produced salt at Drake’s Salt Works at Goldonna (pop. 457).

first appeared: 10/5/2003

The 1st Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards was sworn into service Sept. 27, 1862, becoming the first black regiment officially mustered into the Union Army.

first appeared: 9/28/2003

With more than 70 acres of formal gardens, Hodges Gardens in Many (pop. 2,889) is the world’s largest privately owned botanical garden.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

Adopted in 1999, the official state Senate poem is Leadership, by Jean McGivney Boese of Alexandria (pop. 46,342).

first appeared: 9/14/2003

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