Captain William Lindsey Challoner worked for the Machecca line of fruit trade ships and sailed through many international ports. These busy ports inspired Challoner's paintings of ships and harbor scenes.
Several buildings at the National Leprosarium at Carville, Louisiana, were built by the Works Progress Administration.
Centenary College of Louisiana is an undergraduate liberal arts college in Shreveport and the oldest continuously operated private college in the western half of the United States.
The Centenary State Historic Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Members of the Cercle Harmonique held séances and received messages from the spirit world in support of Black rights and social equality.
New Orleans native Charles Gayarré wrote the first complete history of Louisiana: a four-volume series entitled Louisiana History (1866).
Nineteenth century painter Charles Giroux captured lush Louisiana landscapes in small-scale oil paintings.
Charles Woodward Hutson, at the time of his retirement, had trained as a lawyer, served as a Confederate soldier, a university professor, and was a critically acclaimed artist.
Deeply rooted in the history, spirituality, and daily activities of the Chitimacha people, basketry remains a visible expression of the Chitimacha Indian tribe’s culture and tradition.
The Chitimacha Tribe is the only federally recognized tribe in Louisiana to still occupy part of its ancestral territory.
The Chitimacha Tribe is the only federally recognized tribe in Louisiana to still occupy part of its ancestral territory.
The Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb is Louisiana’s second-largest tribe, with more than seven thousand enrolled citizens.
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