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Alexandria was incorporated as a town in 1818 and received a city charter in 1832. [7] In 1942, Alexandria was the site of the Lee Street Riot, [8] an incident of racial violence that occurred between mostly civilians and military police. Witnesses state that as many as 20 people may have been killed, however the official report indicates that ...
Pointe à la Hache: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. A word meaning persimmons created from the Louisiana Creole and the Atakapa language 22,386: 2,429 sq mi (6,291 km 2) Pointe Coupee Parish: 077: New Roads: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. French phrase la pointe coupée or in English, the cut-off point, which refers to a bend in ...
LA 1250 (Shamrock Street) Northern terminus of LA 107; eastern terminus of LA 1250: 54.741– 55.041: 88.097– 88.580: US 167 north (Pineville Expressway) – Winnfield LA 3100 west (Griffith Street) – Pineville: East end of freeway and US 167 concurrency; eastern terminus of LA 3100: 55.945: 90.035: LA 3144 west (Edgewood Drive) Eastern ...
It is located across the Red River from the larger Alexandria, and is part of the Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,555 at the 2010 census . It had been 13,829 in 2000; population hence grew by 5 percent over the preceding decade.
The parish seat and largest city is Alexandria, which developed along the Red River of the South. [2] Rapides is the French word for "rapids". The parish was created in 1807 after the United States acquired this territory in the Louisiana Purchase. [3] Rapides Parish is included in the Alexandria metropolitan area, Louisiana.
LA 470, US 71-167 (briefly), and Old Baton Rouge Highway to Alexandria. Alexandria to Pineville: US 71 (Jefferson Hwy. or MacArthur Dr.), Lee Street, Main Street, and Murray Street through Alexandria. The Jefferson Highway crossed the Red River on a now-demolished bridge at the foot of Murray Street into Pineville.
U.S. Route 167 is a north-south United States Highway within the U.S. states of Louisiana and Arkansas.It runs for 500 miles (800 km) [1] from Ash Flat, Arkansas at U.S. Route 62/U.S. Route 412 to Abbeville, Louisiana at Louisiana Highway 14.
The Alexandria metropolitan area was first defined in 1973. Then known as the Alexandria Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (Alexandria SMSA), it consisted of two parishes - Rapides and Grant - and had a population of 131,749. [2] [3] By the census of 1980, the population had grown to 151,985, a 15% increase over the previous census.