Louisiana Home Improvement Contractors
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Louisiana information:
- The official website of the State of Louisiana is www.Louisiana.gov.
- Fort Polk was established in 1941 and named in honor of the Right Reverend Leonidas Polk, the first Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana. On March 12, 1993, Fort Polk officially became the home of the Joint Readiness Training Center.
- 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 England.
- Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the United States; the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors.
- Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV.
- Money Magazine has rated Terrebonne Parish, in the heart of Cajun Country the best place to live in Louisiana for 3 years in a row.
- The first American army to have African American officers was the confederate Louisiana Native Guards. The Corps d'Afrique at Port Hudson was sworn into service on September 27, 1862.
- The Town of Walker became a municipality under the State's Lawrason Act (136 of 1898) on July 9, 1909 as a village.
- Incorporated in 1813 under the Lawrason Act, Saint Francisville is the second oldest town in Louisiana.
- Gueydan is known as the "Duck Capital of America" in recognition of its abundance of waterfowl.
Louisiana news:
- Author William Joyce wins the 2008 Louisiana Writer Award
When William Joyce got the phone call notifying him that he was the 2008
Louisiana Writer Award recipient, he says he asked, "Are you sure you've
got the ... - Louisiana Book Festival is a state-sponsored free event with ...
Illustration by Kenneth Harrison / The Times-PicayuneThe Louisiana Book
Festival has it all -- biographers and historians, musicologists and
sociologists, ... - Louisiana delegation looking for more from bailout legislation
The original bill, agreed to by congressional leaders and the Bush
administration over the weekend, was defeated 228-205, with only two of
Louisiana's seven ... - High court rebuffs Louisiana in child rape case
The unusual request, from Louisiana and the Bush administration, was based
on the failure of anyone involved in the case to take into account a
federal law ... - Court: Ban on execution of child rapists stands
Patrick Kennedy, 43, was on Louisiana's death row after being convicted of
raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter. The decision came as the high court
announced ...
Louisiana covers 64 Counties:
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, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint Helena, Saint James, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, Saint Tammany, St John The Baptist, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Terrebonne, Union, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, Webster, West Baton Rouge, West Carroll, West Feliciana, Winn
Louisiana covers 5 area codes:
225, 318, 337, 504, 985