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Lodwrick Monroe Cook Education Auditorium

Native Louisianan, international business leader, tireless champion of humanitarian causes, Lodwrick M. Cook has contributed greatly to the creation of Louisiana's center for political and governmental history.Lod Cook was born in Casstor, LA., June 17, 1928 and raised in Grand Cane. He attended Louisiana State University, receiving Bachelor Degrees in mathematics in 1950 and...

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Tristram Dalton

Tristran Dalton (1732-1817) was born in Newburryport, Mass; graduate of Harvard, 1755: admitted to bar but followed mercantile pursuits. Delegate to Convention of Committees of New England...

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Old Federal Road

The highway crossing east and west at this point is the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia´s earliest vehicular route. It led across the Indian County from the southeast boundary of...

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