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99 unusual facts about Louisiana


1250 Poydras Plaza

In June 2010 the Unified Command moved its headquarters from the Dutch Royal Shell Conference Center in Robert, Louisiana to the building to deal with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Ahmed Orabi

A suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana was named Arabi, a corruption of "Orabi" in solidarity with his revolt against the British occupation.

Amos Moses

The song tells the story of a one-armed Cajun alligator hunter named Amos Moses, son of Doc and Hanna Milsap, who lives "about 45 minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana".

Amy Berman Jackson

Jackson represented nine term Representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, William J. Jefferson in his corruption trial in 2009.

Anita C. Hill

Hill was born in 1951, and as a child attended a Roman Catholic church in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Avalon Rare Metals

The Nechalacho Project is planned to consist of facilities at three separate sites: an underground mine and concentrator at Thor Lake, a hydrometallurgical plant at the Pine Point Mine site and a rare earth refinery to be located in Geismar, Louisiana.

Ben Earl Looney

Looney was born in the Yellow Pine community, located south of Sibley, Louisiana, to Julian A. Looney (1871–1958) and the former Mollie McKinney (1872–1932).

Billy the Exterminator

The show follows the professional life of Billy Bretherton, an expert in the field of pest control and the proprietor of Vexcon Animal and Pest Control in Benton, Louisiana, which serves the Shreveport-Bossier metropolitan area.

Blayne Weaver

Weaver began to perform in the children's theater group The Peter Pan Players in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Ralph T. Troy, the mayor of Monroe, Louisiana, from 1972 to 1976, later relocated to North Carolina and resided in Blowing Rock.

Bois-Franc, Quebec

Industrial Park "Réjean Lafrenière" is home to the oriented strand board factory Louisiana-Pacific Canada ltd.

Breard v. City of Alexandria

Breard was arrested for going door to door in the City of Alexandria soliciting magazine subscriptions.

Carl Brenders

30 of the artist's works were a part of the major retrospective exhibition Artistry in Nature: The Wildlife Paintings of Carl Brenders which opened at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, and Shreveport, Louisiana.

Carroll Parish, Louisiana

It was divided in 1877 into East Carroll Parish and West Carroll Parish.

Charles Victor Thompson

He was captured three days later outside a liquor store in Shreveport, Louisiana where he was using a pay phone while intoxicated.

Colt, Arkansas

L. Clover - Missionary Baptist pastor of New Prospect congregation in Colt prior to 1948; founder in 1952 of Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary in Minden, Louisiana.

Columbia County, Arkansas

Dorcheat Bayou flows through Columbia County from its origin in Nevada County southward into Webster Parish, Louisiana, before emptying into Lake Bistineau.

Countess Leon

(2) Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

D. L. Dykes, Jr.

Dykes was born in Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish in northwestern Louisiana to David L. Dykes, Sr. (1883–1964) and the former Ruby Perley (1896–1944).

Daniel Patterson

On September 16, 1814, Patterson raided the base of the pirate Jean Laffite at Barataria, Louisiana, capturing six schooners and other small craft.

Dorian Anneck

Dorian continued on with his professional career playing the next 3 seasons in the Western Professional Hockey League (WPHL) with the Monroe Moccasins based out of Monroe, Louisiana until the finish of the end of the 2000 season.

Ed Gossett

Born in a sawmill camp known as Yellow Pine, near Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Gossett moved to Texas in 1908 with his parents, who settled on a farm near Henrietta, Clay County.

ENVIRON

In the United States, the firm has worked with the Marathon Petroleum Company at its major gulf coast refinery in Garyville, Louisiana, to develop VOC BioTreat™, a patent-pending biotreatment solution to reduce volatile organic compound emissions at oil and chemical refineries.

GEO 600

The three instruments (LIGO's instruments are located near Livingston, Louisiana and on the Hanford Site, Washington in the U.S.) will collect data for more than a year, with breaks for tuning and updates.

Gerald Archie Mangun

He preached at many revivals in small towns in Louisiana such as Starks, Clarks, Eros, and Hodge.

Givers

Givers was formed in 2008 in Lafayette, Louisiana by Tiffany Lamson, Taylor Guarisco, Kirby Campbell, Josh LeBlanc, William Henderson, and Nick Stephan.

Glenn Ezell

Glenn Wayne Ezell (born October 29, 1944, at Kentwood, Louisiana) is an American former front-office executive in Major League Baseball, as well as a former MLB coach and minor league catcher and manager.

Graves B. Erskine

Graves Erskine was born in Columbia, Louisiana, on June 28, 1897, where he graduated from high school at age 15 as class valedictorian.

Graydon K. Kitchens, Jr.

After college, Kitchens, Sr., taught school for a year in Summerfield in Claiborne Parish.

Herbert William Christenberry

He served as chief judge from 1949 to 1967, and continued on the court thereafter until his death, in Kentwood, Louisiana.

Hesham Tillawi

Hesham Tillawi is a Palestinian-American writer, TV talk show host, and political analyst living in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Innis High School

Innis High School was a high school located in the village of Innis in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States, at 6450 Louisiana Highway 1.

Irvington, Virginia

One of its graduates, Claybrook Cottingham, was later its assistant principal and subsequently in his long academic career the president of both Louisiana College in Pineville and Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.

Jack Lowe, Sr.

The grocer got in touch with Mrs. Lowe’s mother who moved Mrs. Lowe and baby to Farmerville, Louisiana.

James B. Chandler

In the April 1862 Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Richmond fought Confederate ships in the Mississippi and passed artillery batteries at Chalmette, Louisiana, leading to the capture of New Orleans.

Jamie Mayo

Mayo was a candidate in Louisiana's 5th congressional district special election, 2013, held on October 19, to fill the seat vacated by the resignation of Republican Rodney Alexander.

Jimmie Noone

Noone was born in Cut Off, Louisiana, and started playing guitar in his home town; at the age of 15, he switched to the clarinet and moved to New Orleans, where he studied with Lorenzo Tio and with the young Sidney Bechet, who was only 13 at the time.

Jimmy G. Shoalmire

In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall H. Twitchell, the Louisiana Republican state senator from Bienville and Red River parishes.

Jimmy Upton

He was survived by his mother; a son Timothy French "Tim" Upton (born 1971), a New Orleans lawyer, and his wife, Patricia Upton; a daughter, Allison Upton Cooper and husband, Brett Cooper, of Jena in La Salle Parish; sister, Ellen Upton Madden of Bossier City, and one grandchild.

Joe Raymond Peace

His father, Joe Peace, Sr. (1920–1992), a native of Magnolia, Arkansas, was a successful high school football coach from 1948–1975 at Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish.

KLAX-TV

KLAX was launched on March 3, 1983 originally operating as an independent station, owned by the late Don Lyons and his wife, the former Rebecca Payton (1937-2012), a native of Saline in Bienville Parish.

L. B. Henry

A businessman in Pineville, Henry served on the Rapides Parish Police Jury (equivalent to county commission in other states) from, first, 1956–1960, and, again, from 1968-1992.

Lafayette County, Missouri

Peter Youree, who commissioned the first skyscraper in Shreveport, Louisiana, a 10-storey headquarters building for the Commercial National Bank, of which he was president, was born in Lafayette County in 1843 and grew up there.

Landmark Land Company

The modern development company, which controls properties in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean, was started in 1971 when the current CEO Gerald G. Barton took control of Godchaux Sugar Company, a bankrupt Louisiana corporation established in 1865.

Landry of Paris

A statue of St. Landry stands behind the altar of St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana.

Liz Swaine

After her municipal service, Swaine became communications director for Calumet Lubricants Company, an oil and natural gas concern which maintains a large plant in Cotton Valley in central Webster Parish.

Long family

Floyd W. Smith, Jr. (1932-2010), Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana 1966–1970, second cousin of Speedy O. Long.

Louis Cataldie

Dr. Cataldie was also involved in running both the Find Family National Call Center, AKA the Family Assistance Center, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as well as the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team morgue in Carville, Louisiana.

Louisiana Highway 100

Louisiana Highway 100 (LA 100) is a state highway located in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.

Louisiana Highway 106

Near the east end of its route, LA 106 passes through an interchange with Interstate 49 (I-49) between Opelousas and Alexandria in the southwest corner of Avoyelles Parish.

Louisiana Highway 107

In Avoyelles Parish, LA 107 continues north to a point known as Dupont where it curves to the east and intersects LA 1179.

Louisiana Highway 1112

Louisiana Highway 1112 (LA 1112) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Acadia Parish.

Louisiana Highway 1124

Louisiana Highway 1124 (LA 1124) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Acadia Parish.

Louisiana Highway 182

From the northwest, LA 182 begins at an intersection with LA 29 in an area of northern St. Landry Parish known as Whiteville.

LA 182 also begins to parallel Bayou Teche out of New Iberia, through Jeanerette, and into St. Mary Parish.

Louisiana Highway 3127

From the northwest, LA 3127 begins at a junction with LA 70 east of Donaldsonville and immediately enters St. James Parish.

Louisiana Highway 3219

Louisiana Highway 3219 (LA 3219) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. James Parish.

Louisiana Highway 454

Louisiana Highway 454 (LA 454) is a state highway in Rapides and Avoyelles Parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

Louisiana Highway 696

Louisiana Highway 696 (LA 696) is a state highway that serves Vermilion parish.

Louisiana Highway 697

Louisiana Highway 697 (LA 697) is a state highway that serves Vermilion parish.

Louisiana Highway 761

Louisiana Highway 761 is a state highway that serves St. Landry parish.

Louisiana Highway 88

Louisiana Highway 88 (LA 88) is a state highway located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana.

Louisiana Tech–Louisiana–Monroe football rivalry

Following the 2012 season, Louisiana–Monroe was invited to play in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, LA.

Louisiana's 3rd congressional district

Louisiana gained its 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts in 1823 as part of the 18th United States Congress.

Mack Charles Parker

Parker was stuffed into the back seat of one and the two cars sped off west toward Bogalusa, Louisiana on Mississippi Highway 26.

Michael B Shepherd

Michael B. Shepherd (born 1977) is the John and Allie Fogleman Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana as well as professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the Caskey School of Divinity.

Mooretown, Shreveport, Louisiana

Mooretown (also known as Motown by many of its residents) is a neighborhood within the city limits of Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

Neal Golden

The league eventually expanded to include public and private schools in the Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard parishes.

Nicky Savoie

Nicky John Savoie (born on September 21, 1973 in Cut Off, Louisiana) is a former American football tight end who has a one year career in the National Football League.

Nolacon

Nolacon is the name given to two Worldcons held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

North Louisiana History

The journal accepts articles for possible publication which focus on any part of Louisiana north of and including Alexandria.

Pharr, Texas

In 1900 Henry N. Pharr for a number of years was a director of the State National Bank of New Iberia, Louisiana, and was a former president of the Louisiana - Rio Grande Sugar Company and the Louisiana - Rio

Richard Cleveland Drew

R. C. Drew was educated at the former Homer College in Homer, the seat of Claiborne Parish.

Robert Hilburn

Born in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and lived until he was 5 mostly on his grandfather’s cotton plantation in nearby Campti.

Robert, Louisiana

Walmart has a large distribution center east of Robert on the road (US 190) to Goodbee, Louisiana.

Royal Southern Brotherhood

In December 2011, the band recorded songs for their debut album over five days at Dockside Studio, a 12 acre estate on the banks of Vermilion Bayou, in Maurice, Louisiana.

Ship Shoal Light

A second order Fresnel lens was provided; during the Civil War Confederate forces raided the tower and carried away the lens and lantern glass, eventually removing them to St. Martinville, but they were recovered at the end of the war.

Shoji Tabuchi

There is a scholarship in his name at a Branson school music department and a community center in Oak Grove, Louisiana, named in his honor.

Shreveport Journal

A Webster Parish native reared in Shreveport, Tiner graduated with a journalism degree from Louisiana Tech University.

Sowers, Texas

Hinton and Alcorn later participated in the fatal ambush that halted Barrow and Parker's spree on May 23, 1934 near Gibsland, Louisiana.

St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office

Landry Parish Sheriff's Office (SLPSO) is the primary law enforcement agency of St. Landry Parish.

Steinhagen Reservoir

The Southwestern Power Administration, U. S. Department of Energy, markets the power and energy generated by the hydropower plant to the Sam Rayburn Municipal Power Agency for distribution to its customers in Jasper, Liberty, and Livingston, Texas and Vinton, Louisiana.

Stephanie Patton

After living in New York City, she returned to Louisiana in 2001 and currently lives and works in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Taovaya people

In 1811 their chief, Awahakei, died during a visit to Americans in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

The Boogie Kings

The band formulated in Eunice, Louisiana in 1955 as teenagers first consisting members Doug Ardoin, Skip Morris, Bert Miller, Byron Launey, Norris Badeaux, Bryan Leger, Murphy Buford and Harris Miller.

The Long, Hot Summer

Filmed in Clinton, Louisiana, the film's cast was composed mostly of former Actors Studio students, whom Ritt met while he was an assistant teacher to Elia Kazan.

This Week in Louisiana Agriculture

This Week in Louisiana Agriculture, or TWILA, is an agricultural television program produced by the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Thomas Mayne Reid

In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely).

Thomas Stevenson Drew

One of Drew's brothers, Richard Maxwell Drew, held several public offices in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, including that of state representative from 1848 until his death in 1850 at the age of twenty-eight.

Tom Colten

He favored (though he could not vote in the primary at the time) John Willard "Jack" Montgomery, a Springhill native and Minden lawyer who was challenging two-term State Senator Harold Montgomery of Doyline, also in Webster Parish.

Tommy Wiseau

Wiseau spent some time in France before moving to Chalmette, Louisiana.

Tony Canzoneri

Tony Canzoneri (November 6, 1908 – December 9, 1959 in Slidell, Louisiana) was an American professional boxer.

USS LSM-216

Following the war, LSM-216 was decommissioned on 2 May 1946 at Calcasieu River, Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Wendy Dascomb

Wendy Dascomb (born c. 1949) is a pageant titleholder from Metairie, Louisiana, who held the Miss USA 1969 title.

West Florida

The Republic of West Florida Historical Museum is located in Jackson run by the Republic of West Florida Historical Association.

White League

Christopher Columbus Nash, a Confederate veteran, former prisoner of war at Johnson's Island in Ohio, and the former sheriff of Grant Parish, led companies of white militias at Colfax, the seat of Grant Parish, and killed tens of blacks in the Colfax Massacre.

Willis Reed

Reed showed athletic ability at an early age and played basketball at West Side High School in Lillie.

WULM

According to a Springfield News-Sun story dated March 10, 2008, the station was purchased by Radio Maria, an Italian-based Catholic radio network which owns and operates KJMJ, its originating USA English-language station in Alexandria, Louisiana.

It is a repeater of KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana, the originating English-language station of Radio Maria USA.


2003 Colima earthquake

A seiche was observed on Lake Pontchartrain in the US state of Louisiana, and sediment was stirred up in several Louisiana wells.

2003 NCAA Division I-A football season

On January 9, 2004, Ted Waitt, CEO of Gateway Computers offered the NCAA $31 million for a national championship game between USC and Louisiana State.

Animal Cops: Houston

The Houston SPCA served as the coordinator of relief efforts for animals trapped in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Army of Central Kentucky

The Department No. 2 (Western Department) was created on June 25, 1861, under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, and had military jurisdiction and control over parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Baton Rouge Community College

Along with former Senator John Breaux and Congresswoman Corrine Brown, former President Bill Clinton visited the college on February 8, 2008 to campaign for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the Louisiana 2008 Democratic primary,

Betty Sue Hagerman

Hagerman succeeded Karen Elliot in 1981 and recorded an overall record of 40-36 in three seasons as head coach of the Lady Tigers, including the Louisiana AIAW Championship in 1981.

Bobby Badon

In 2007, he defeated the Republican candidate, Raymond "La La" Lalonde, a former Democratic member of the Louisiana House.

Charles Gayarré

Charles Étienne Arthur Gayarré (January 9, 1805 – February 11, 1895) was an American historian, attorney and politician born to a French Creole planter's family in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act

More recently, in 2008, Hurricanes Gustav and Ike have left their mark on Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands.

Diatonic button accordion

USA: John Kimmel, PJ Conlon, Joe Derrane, Billy McComiskey (Irish traditional); John Nolan, (Irish traditional) Marc Savoy (Louisiana Cajun); John Delafose, Boozoo Chavis (Louisiana "zydeco"); Flaco Jimenez ("conjunto")

Ellen Bryan Moore

Her father was the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary until he was dismissed in a dispute with then Governor Huey P. Long, Jr. Moore spent her early years growing up at the manager's residence when the penitentiary was in Baton Rouge, instead of the present site at rural Angola in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville.

Ernest Emery Harmon

Harmon earned his wings in May 1918 at Gerstner Field, Louisiana, where he went on to become a flight, gunnery, and bombing instructor.

Gary Beard

Also running was a second Republican, Country music singer Sammy Kershaw of Abbeville, the seat of Vermilion Parish in southwestern Louisiana, who drew 30 percent of the ballots.

James Patrick Major

In 1864, he fought at both Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in De Soto Parish and with General Hamilton P. Bee at Monett's Ferry in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.

Jeff MacDonald

Geoff Macdonald, former head women’s tennis coach at Louisiana State University

John Liddell

St. John Richardson Liddell (1815–1870), Louisiana planter and Confederate general

Kinder, Louisiana

In 1903, Louisiana Gov. William Heard issued a proclamation declaring the site the Village of Kinder.

KLAX

KLAX-TV, a television station (channel 31) licensed to Alexandria, Louisiana

KLFY-TV

This marked Media General's return to Louisiana after selling Alexandria NBC affiliate KALB to Hoak Media in 2006.

KLWB

KLWB-FM, a radio station (103.7 FM) licensed to Opelousas, Louisiana, United States

L. D. Knox

In 1978, Knox and then Louisiana Secretary of State James H. "Jim" Brown of Ferriday in Concordia Parish, running as Democrats, unsuccessfully challenged the reelection of freshman Democratic U.S. Representative Jerry Huckaby.

Louis Varney

Louis Varney was the son of Alphonse Varney, a French conductor at the Bouffes-Parisiens and at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, he was also invited to conduct the "French Opera Season" abroad, notably in New Orleans, Louisiana, and this is how Louis came to be born there in 1844.

Louisiana Highway 102

Louisiana Highway 102 (LA 102) is a state highway located in Jefferson Davis Parish.

Louisiana Highway 3132

Louisiana Highway 3132 (LA 3132) is a state highway in Shreveport, Louisiana, named the "Terry Bradshaw Passway" and more commonly known as the Inner Loop Expressway.

Louisiana Highway 700

Louisiana Highway 700 is a state highway that serves Vermilion and Lafayette parishes.

McCann School of Business and Technology

Delta is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia and owns schools in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana and Georgia.

Michael Talbot

Michael Kirk Talbot (born 1969), member of Louisiana House of Representatives

MV Freedom Star

As well as recovering the Space Shuttle SRB's Freedom Star has since 1998 been used to tow the Space Shuttle external fuel tanks from their assembly plant at Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Quartiere

The English word "quarter" to mean a neighbourhood (e.g. the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana) is derived from the cognate old French word "quartier".

Redbreast sunfish

The species has been introduced as far west as Louisiana and West Texas.

Richard Zussman

In the summer of 2008, Zussman worked in Washington, D.C. as a television reporter for KTAL in Shreveport, Louisiana covering the Senate race between John Kennedy and incumbent Mary Landrieu.

Robert Snyder

Robert C. Snyder (1919–2011), professor of English at Louisiana Tech University

Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr.

Sam enlisted in Col. Xavier Debray's regiment on September 18, 1861, and served until the end of the American Civil War on the coast of Texas and in Louisiana.

Scott M. Sipprelle

Sipprelle was criticized later in January for his contribution to the congressional campaigns of Blue Dog Democrats Allen Boyd of Florida, Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, Heath Shuler of North Carolina, Baron Hill of Indiana, and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota.

Sigi Lemmerer

Originally from Wörschach, Austria, Sigi Lemmerer has lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and given concert tours through Europe, the USA, and Asia.

Silver carp

By August 2009, they had become abundant in the Mississippi River watershed from Louisiana to South Dakota and Illinois, and had grown close to invading the Great Lakes via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Sonya Balmores

She placed first runner-up in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Shelley Hennig of Louisiana.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, February 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

Tommy Wright

Thomas D. "Tommy" Wright (born 1956), former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Tropical cyclones in 2005

Hurricane Rita - destructive hurricane striking Texas and Louisiana

Tropical Storm Debra

1978's Tropical Storm Debra, a short-lived tropical storm that caused minimal damages in Louisiana

Virginia deGravelles

Early in 1964, the deGravelles supported Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr., an oilman from Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, for the governorship.

W. Matt Lowe

Matt Lowe (January 1, 1872–March 4, 1955) was a merchant and public official in the city of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

Willie Stark

Willie Stark is an opera in three acts and nine scenes by Carlisle Floyd to his own libretto, after the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, which in turn was inspired by the life of the Louisiana governor Huey Long.