British RaidIn Feb. 1814, British troopsraided this village, seizing 300 barrels of flour ofU.S. Gov. and stored in barnsof Col. Hopkins near the brookState Education...
This plaque marks the original site of the first Chartered College in California. It was Chartered as the California Wesleyan College on July 10, 1851. The following year the name was changed...
Tulane Stadium was the original home of the National Football League's New Orleans Saints from 1967-1974. The Saints' first regular season game was held on September 17, 1967. Most notable...
Founded 1886 as the Coordinate Women's College of Tulane University by Josephine Louise Le Mommier Newcomb (1816-1901) in memory of her daughter Harriott Sophie Newcomb (1855-1870)....
In 1805, Elisha W. Bowman was sent as a Missionary to Louisiana by Bishops Whatcoat and Asbury, reaching Appelousas territory in late 1805. He organized a Methodist Society in Opelousas early in...
Annual flooding in the Acthafalaya Basin provides an ideal crawfish habitat. Today, most of Louisiana's crawfish production comes from farms, but the Basin still leads in the production...
Artist Bill FrymireCompleted: June 2019Celebrating place and community, this monumental mosaic shows a topographical view of the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers set in an...
The first Methodist Church in Louisiana began here in 1805 and is called "The Cradle of Louisiana Methodism."The first conference of Louisiana Methodists convened here in 1847.
Mississippi River levee breeches in the Morganza area between 1780 and 1890 resulted in 15 major floods affecting Pointe Coupée Parish and all those to the south as far as the Gulf of...
Here was driven the Last Spike completing Canadian Pacific Railway from ocean to ocean November 7, 1885 submitted by Paul Mackey
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WILLIAM KEITH 1838 - 1911 OLD MASTER OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1885 TO THE END OF HIS LIFE HIS HOME STOOD ABOUT FIFTY YARDS EAST OF THIS SPOT "HE WHO IS A BLESSING FOR HIS TIME IS A BLESSING FOR...