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.
Several buildings at the National Leprosarium at Carville, Louisiana, were built by the Works Progress Administration.
The plantation chapel at Live Oaks, built for the enslaved workers in 1840, is the last to survive in Louisiana.
Mary Ann Patout was an important figure in the Louisiana banking and sugar industries.
Nottoway is one of the largest antebellum houses in the South and the largest surviving plantation house in Louisiana.
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