Disasters
Lake Peigneur Drilling Accident
An oil drilling operation at Lake Peigneur accidentally punctured a salt dome, creating a sinkhole that swallowed barges and caused the Delcambre Canal to flow backwards.
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Architecture
Lakefront Airport
In order to accommodate seaplanes as well as land-based craft, New Orleans's Lakefront Airport was built on land dredged from Lake Pontchartrain to create a site that projects into the lake.
History
Late Twentieth-Century Louisiana
Louisiana entered the 1960s behind the national curve in postwar development but poised for dramatic progress.
Architecture
Laura Plantation
Laura Lacoul Gore, the namesake of Laura Plantation, left a memoir that proved to be an important resource for the restoration of the house.
Architecture
Laurel Valley Plantation
In the early twentieth century, Thibodaux's Laurel Valley Plantation was the largest sugar producer in the region and employed as many as 450 workers.
Architecture
Layton Castle
Layton Castle, a rambling, maze-like brick home built in 1814, is an architectural landmark in Monroe, Louisiana.
8.15. i. Leander Perez
Corrupt democratic politician Leander Perez Sr., a staunch segregationist, served as a district judge, district attorney, and president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council.
Folklife
Leather Britches Smith
The legendary outlaw Charles “Leather Britches” Smith is best known for his armed defense of his fellow union members during the Grabow Riot of 1912.
Architecture
LeBeau Plantation
The LeBeau House plantation occupies one of the narrow lots typical of The Island, the area between the Mississippi and False rivers.
Government, Politics & Law
Legalized Gambling
Legalized gambling has played an important cultural, political, and economic role in Louisiana's history from the colonial era to the present.
Literature
Léona Queyrouze
New Orleans–born Léona Queyrouze was a prolific poet, writer, and essayist.
History
Les Cenelles
Les Cenelles is a groundbreaking collection of original French poems published by a group of free men of color in nineteenth-century Louisiana.
