Disasters
2016 Floods
A rainy weekend in August 2016 unexpectedly left behind more than three times the amount of rain dropped by Hurricane Katrina, damaging 146,000 homes in fifty-six of Louisiana’s sixty-four parishes.
Ascension
Ascension Index
Architecture
Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church Cemetery
This Catholic cemetery in Donaldsonville was laid out in a grid plan shortly after the church parish was founded in 1772.
Architecture
Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation
Perhaps more than any other plantation house, Ashland-Belle Helene epitomizes the popular image of the grand Greek Revival southern mansion.
Government, Politics & Law
Battle of Baton Rouge (1862)
Union and Confederate troops fought to secure the strategic town on the Mississippi River.
Government, Politics & Law
Bernette Joshua Johnson
The first African American chief of the state’s judiciary
Architecture
Bocage Plantation
Although Bocage's early history is hazy, local tradition has maintained that the house was built in 1801 by Emanuel Marius Pons Bringier as a wedding gift for his fourteen-year-old daughter, Françoise.
Government, Politics & Law
Edwin Edwards
Democratic politician Edwin Washington Edwards cast a long shadow over the state's political history.
Government, Politics & Law
Francis T. Nicholls
Francis Nicholls served two nonconsecutive terms as governor of Louisiana from 1877 to 1880, and again from 1888 to 1892.
Architecture
Houmas House Plantation
Houmas House Plantation in Darrow is an excellent example of the peripteral type of Greek Revival architecture in which the main structure is surrounded by grand columns, each with an uninterrupted span from ground level to the roofline.
Architecture
L'Hermitage Plantation
L'Hermitage Plantation in Darrow, Louisiana, stands as a nearly 200 year-old classical revival style home.
Government, Politics & Law
Pierre Caliste Landry
Born enslaved in Ascension Parish, Pierre Caliste Landry became the first Black mayor in the United States in 1868.
Art
Russell Lee
Nationally acclaimed photographer Russell Lee produced series of photographs on Louisiana life, including scenes of rural communities and New Orleans, for the Great Depression-era Farm Security Administration (FSA) project.
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