History

Mother Mary Hyacinth
Mother Mary Hyacinth led nine Daughters of the Cross from France to central Louisiana in 1855 to open a convent and several schools.
Mother Mary Hyacinth led nine Daughters of the Cross from France to central Louisiana in 1855 to open a convent and several schools.
Before its restoration in the 1950s, the Mulberry Grove Plantation house was being used as a hay barn.
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
France’s Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law and became a model legal framework around the world, including in Louisiana.
The Natchez are an American Indian group that lived along the Lower Mississippi River during the rise of European colonialism.
Both French and British colonists sought alliances with the Natchez Indians, an American Indian group with settlements along the Lower Mississippi River.
Natchitoches’s savory hand pies are filled with a mixture of ground pork and beef in a seasoned gravy.
A hallmark of southeastern Indian societies, cane basketry traditions persist in fewer than ten contemporary tribal communities in the southeastern United States, including three in Louisiana.
Louisiana boasts some of the most significant Native American earthen monuments in North America and ranks second only to Mississippi in the number of mound sites.
From the time of colonial exploration to the present, Louisiana’s landscape has inspired a rich variety of nature writing.
The Neutral Strip existed outside the governance of either the United States or Spain until 1821.
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