Architecture
Glencoe Plantation
The architecture of Glencoe Plantation in Louisiana is unusually elaborate and resembles an illustration from a child's fairy-tale book.
Bourbon Era
Bourbon Era Index
Government, Politics & Law
Governors of Louisiana
This is a complete list of the governors of Louisiana, their terms, and links to biographical entries.
Business & Industry
Grabow Riot (Massacre)
Labor union meeting results in death and arrest of timber workers.
8.12 g. Great Flood of 1927
The Great Flood of 1927 inundated more than ten thousand square miles across twenty Louisiana parishes and left tens of thousands of Louisianans without shelter.
Disasters
Great Flood of 1927
The Flood of 1927 inundated nearly 26,000 square miles in 170 counties and parishes in seven states, driving an estimated 931,159 people from their homes.
Architecture
Greenwood Plantation
The massive Greek Revival plantation house is a modern replica of the original structure at Greenwood which burned to the ground in 1960.
Architecture
Gretna City Hall
The Gretna City Hall building is conventional in its Beaux-Arts forms, but, squeezed onto its narrow site, it is a compact composition with a vertical emphasis.
1.8 f. Gumbo
Gumbo is a thick soup popular in Louisiana.
Foodways
Gumbo
Gumbo is a thick soup that could be considered the signature dish of South Louisiana.
Government, Politics & Law
H. L. Billiot v. Terrebonne Parish School Board et al.
In 1917 the Louisiana court system ruled that Native people occupied the same legal status as African Americans under Jim Crow.
Literature
Hamilton Basso
New Orleans-born Hamilton Basso was an influential novelist and journalist, as well as part of the southern literary renaissance.
Art
Harold Rudolph
After announcing painter Harold Rudolph's arrival in New Orleans in 1873, local papers praised his portraits as being among the best ever produced in the city.
