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Name Image Date designated Town, Parish Parish Notes; 87000849 Acadia Plantation: May 29, 1987: Thibodaux: Lafourche: Demolished 2010 83000554 Afton Villa Gardens: February 24, 1983: St. Francisville: West Feliciana: House destroyed by fire in 1963. Gardens and ruins open daily, March 1 to June 30 & October 1 to December 1. 91001046 Aillet ...
In 1986, the facility became the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Center; the name change was directly linked to Congressman Long's influence in keeping the hospital open. In 1992, the Carville Historic District was established and in 1996 the National Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Museum was founded.
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
This is a complete list of National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana,. The United States National Historic Landmark program is a program of the National Park Service , and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance.
Estelle is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 17,952 in 2020. [2] It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. Estelle is located south of Marrero; the urbanized areas of the communities meet, and some businesses in Estelle list their addresses as ...
The Shadows-on-the-Teche household was economically and physically dependent on Louisiana slavery. Mary Weeks and John Moore strongly supported African American slavery and supported the political changes which they thought were necessary to save it; in 1861, Moore was a delegate to the convention in which Louisiana seceded from the Union .
William C. Feazel (1895–1965), interim U.S. Senator in 1948; member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 1932–1936; father-in-law of Shady R. Wall; W. L. "Jack" Howard (1911–1994), former mayor of Monroe and owner with his brother, Alton Hardy Howard of the former Howard Brothers Discount Stores