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.
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.
Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace, known as the Angola Three, survived over four decades of solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Cornetist Buddy Bolden was the first documented player of New Orleans jazz.
The Centenary State Historic Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The East Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson was the state's first major permanent facility to provide behavioral healthcare to patients.
The architecture of Glencoe Plantation in Louisiana is unusually elaborate and resembles an illustration from a child's fairy-tale book.
Albert G. Carter built Linwood Plantation in Louisiana from an inherited Spanish land grant.
The capture of Port Hudson in Louisiana gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River and was a significant turning point in the Civil War.
The capture of Port Hudson in Louisiana gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River and was a significant turning point in the Civil War.
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