Architecture
Bloom's Arcade
Bloom's Arcade, one of Louisiana's first shopping centers, was built in Tallulah in 1930 and served as a centerpiece of the Madison Parish town’s business district for half a century.
Madison
Madison Index
Architecture
Curtis and Davis Architects
The architectural firm Curtis and Davis designed the Superdome, Rivergate, and other notable buildings in New Orleans and throughout the state.
Literature
Henry Clay Lewis
Henry Clay Lewis trained as a doctor in Louisiana and also contributed to the nineteenth-century literary genre of southwestern humor.
Government, Politics & Law
Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny
Dumont de Montigny is best remembered for writing a colorful, suspenseful, and often humorous memoir about his experience as an officer, farmer, and explorer in eighteenth-century French colonial Louisiana.
Government, Politics & Law
Milliken’s Bend
At Milliken’s Bend the majority of Union forces were formerly enslaved men whose valor was heralded to increase military recruitment among free African Americans.
History
Son House
The guitar style of Edward James “Son” House has influenced blues musicians since the 1930s.
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