Portal:Louisiana
The state of Louisiana is located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans. As of the 2010 Census the New Orleans population was 343,800, an increase of 88,800 people since the Census Bureau's count in July 2006. The population within the city limits of Baton Rouge was 224,000 pre-Katrina and according to the Census Bureau the population increased to about 232,000 in the year following Katrina. Other data suggest that even with its many post-Katrina problems, New Orleans is repopulating faster than Baton Rouge.
Louisiana is the only state that is divided into parishes; most other states are divided into counties. The largest parish by population is Jefferson Parish and largest by area is Terrebonne Parish ). The New Orleans metropolitan area is Louisiana's largest metropolitan area.
Louisiana has a unique multicultural and multilingual heritage. Originally part of New France, Louisiana is home to many speakers of Louisiana French and Louisiana Creole French. African American and Franco-African, and Acadian, French / French Canadian form the two largest groups of ancestry in Louisiana's population. (read more . . . ) Template:/box-footer
Poverty Point, known for its mound construction, is an archaeological site in northeastern Louisiana (near the town of Epps), overlooking the Mississippi River flood plain. The name derives from the Poverty Point plantation, which included the site's land in modern times. It was constructed c. 1730 BC–1350 BC by American Indians of the archaic Poverty Point culture that inhabited the Mississippi Delta at that time, and continued to develop further in the centuries to come.The earthen structures were built and enlarged for centuries, with the site reaching its final form at about 1000 BC. It is referred to by some as the first true city of North America, although the population is unlikely to have exceeded 2000 individuals at any time.
The site is a wide, 400 acre (1.6 km²) plaza consisting of six concentric earthen ridges. The ridges may have originally been six feet high. Aisles intersected the ridges, leading directly from the center to the perimeter. Unique in the configuration of its earthen structures — notably concentric, semi-elliptical ridges of great size — it had no equal in grandeur in its day. "Clearly an earth-moving project of this magnitude and sophistication, no matter how protracted over time, required not only a large pool of labor, but also formal orchestration...geometric patterning among Archaic mounds, including those of Poverty Point, is an archaeological fact whose significance lies not so much in the labor needed to erect them, but in the ideas needed to conceive of them." (read more . . . )
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Credit: Library of Congress
Creole musicians playing an accordion and a washboard in front of a store, near New Iberia, Louisiana (1938).
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. James Houston Davis, better known as Jimmie Davis, was a noted singer of both sacred and popular songs who served two nonconsecutive terms as a Democratic governor of Louisiana. Davis was considered to have been part of the anti-Long faction though Governor Earl Kemp Long endorsed him in the pivotal 1960 runoff election.
Davis became a commercially successful singer of rural music before he entered politics. His early work was in the style of early country music luminary Jimmie Rodgers, and he was also known for recording raunchy blues tunes like "Red Nightgown Blues." Some of these records included slide guitar accompaniment by black bluesman Oscar Woods.
He is associated with several popular songs, most notably "You Are My Sunshine," which was designated an official state song of Louisiana in 1977. He claimed that he wrote the song while attending graduate school at LSU, but research indicates he bought it from another performer Paul Rice, who had recorded it with his brother Hoke, who recorded together as the Rice Brothers under Paul Rice's name. The practice of buying songs from their composers was a common practice during the 1930s through the 1960s. Some writers in need of cash often sold tunes to others.
Davis was elected as the city's Democratic public safety commissioner. (At the time, Shreveport had a commission form of government. In the 1970s, the city switched to the mayor-council format.) Davis was elected in 1942 to the Louisiana Public Service Commission but left the rate-making body, which meets in Baton Rouge, two years later to become governor. (read more . . . )
- ...that the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana, worked for 16 years to keep a new bridge over the Sabine River a high priority?
- ...More than one-half of the species of birds in North America are resident in Louisiana or spend a portion of their migration there?
- ...Louisiana has the greatest concentration of crude oil refineries, natural gas processing plants and petrochemical production facilities in the Western Hemisphere?
- ...Louisiana is the only state with a large population of Cajuns, descendants of the Acadians who were driven out of Canada in the 1700s because they wouldn't pledge allegiance to the King of Great Britain?
- ...The town of Jean Lafitte was once a hideaway for pirates?
- ...Because of its many bays and sounds, Louisiana has the longest coastline (15,000 miles) of any state and 41 percent of the nation's wetlands?
- ...Louisiana is the nation's largest handler of grain for export to world markets and that more than 40 percent of the U.S. grain exports move through Louisiana ports?
- ...The site of the oldest known Louisiana civilization is Poverty Point in West Carroll Parish, where an Indian village existed 2,700 years ago?
- ...Louisiana has 2,482 islands, covering nearly 1,300,000 acres (5,300 km2)?
- ...The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, with a length of 23.87 miles (38.42 km), is the world's longest bridge built entirely over water?
- ...Baton Rouge was the site of the only battle fought outside of the original 13 colonies during the American Revolution?
- ...Louisiana produces more furs (1.3 million pelts a year) than any other state?
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| Flower | Magnolia | 
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| Motto | Union, justice, and confidence | |
| Nickname | The Pelican State | |
| Tree | Bald Cypress | |
| Bird | Brown Pelican |
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- History and Culture of Louisiana
- Census Statistics on Louisiana
- U.S. Census Bureau
- USDA Louisiana Statistical Facts
- USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Louisiana
- Louisiana Geographic Information Center
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. Avery Island is a salt dome located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, about three miles (5 km) inland from Vermilion Bay, which in turn opens onto the Gulf of Mexico. Avery Island is famous as the home of Tabasco sauce, which has been manufactured on the island by McIlhenny Company since 1868. Avery Island is also home to Jungle Gardens and a well-known bird sanctuary called Bird City, where each spring thousands of snowy white egrets and other migratory water birds return to nest.
In every way Avery Island has been and continues to be the home of Tabasco™ sauce. Some of the peppers are grown there, and the peppers that are grown elsewhere are from seeds grown on the island. The salt used in the sauce is mined there. Many of the factory and field workers dwell in cottages there. And the McIlhenny family, creators of the hot sauce, still lives there. Many workers grew up on Avery Island, with one or both parents working in the fields or the factory. Offspring of today's workers often choose to stay and work there, too. (read more . . . )
Topics: Louisianans - Constitution - Governors - Attorneys General - Legislature - Supreme Court
Cities: Alexandria - Baton Rouge - Bossier City - Houma - Kenner - Lafayette - Lake Charles - Monroe - New Iberia - New Orleans - Opelousas - Ruston - Shreveport - Slidell - Sulphur
Geography: Lakes - Parks - North Louisiana - South Louisiana
Education: Elementary schools - Middle schools - High schools - UIL
People: Actors - Writers - Musicians - Cajun people - Creole people - People from Baton Rouge - Native American Tribes
Industries: Agriculture - Oil - University of Louisiana System
Metros: Alexandria - Baton Rouge - Houma‑Bayou Cane‑Thibodaux - Lafayette - Lake Charles - Monroe - New Orleans - Shreveport‑Bossier City
Parishes: Acadia - Allen - Ascension - Assumption - Avoyelles - Beauregard - Bienville - Bossier - Caddo - Calcasieu - Caldwell - Cameron - Catahoula - Claiborne - Concordia - De Soto - East Baton Rouge - East Carroll - East Feliciana - Evangeline - Franklin - Grant - Iberia - Iberville - Jackson - Jefferson - Jefferson Davis - La Salle - Lafayette - Lafourche - Lincoln - Livingston - Madison - Morehouse - Natchitoches - Orleans - Ouachita - Plaquemines - Pointe Coupee - Rapides - Red River - Richland - Sabine - St. Bernard - St. Charles - St. Helena - St. James - St. John the Baptist - St. Landry - St. Martin - St. Mary - St. Tammany - Tangipahoa - Tensas - Terrebonne - Union - Vermilion - Vernon - Washington - Webster - West Baton Rouge - West Carroll - West Feliciana - Winn
Statistics: Population
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