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Meeker Sugar Refinery is located in Meeker in south Rapides Parish, Louisiana.The refinery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1987.. It was operated by the Klock brothers, Ernest Lorne Klock (1879–1967) and Neil Haven Klock (1896–1978), the latter of whom who served from 1940 to 1944 in the Louisiana House of Representatives as one of the three Rapides ...
The Wade H. Jones Sr. House, also known as the Kleiner House, is a historic house located on Meeker Road in Meeker, Louisiana. It was built in 1935 in the Colonial Revival style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] It is a two-story brick house built in 1913 and was renovated in 1935.
Commissioned during 1943, The USS Cabot (CVL-28/AVT-3) was an Independence-class aircraft carrier in the United States Navy. From 1967 to 1989, it was used by the Spanish navy as the Dédalo . A New Orleans–based museum foundation purchased the ship for restoration during 1990, but was unable to obtain sufficient funding.
Holiday in Dixie, annual springtime festival, began 1949; Independence Bowl, held annually close to New Year's since 1976; Independence Day Festival, held annually on the 4th of July since 2009; Let the Good Times Roll Festival, annual Juneteenth festival since 1986; Louisiana Film Prize, short film competition and film festival; Mardi Gras parades
Joseph Rusling Meeker (born in Newark, New Jersey, 21 April 1827; died in St. Louis, Missouri, 27 September 1887) was an American painter, known for his images of the Louisiana bayou. Art historian Estill Curtis Pennington called him "the foremost articulator of the romantic Louisiana landscape in the 19th century."
James Meeker (born 1995), American baseball player; Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827-1887), American painter; Josephine Meeker (1857-1882), American teacher and physician; Jotham Meeker (1804-1855), Baptist missionary to the Indians in Kansas; Judith Meeker, American founder of More Than Warmth; Leonard C. Meeker (1916–2014), American politician ...
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
The move to establish Independence as a town was led in the early 20th century by State Representative Harry D. Wilson, who subsequently served from 1916 until his death early in 1948 as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry. Wilson was a son of Dr. and Mrs. William D. Wilson.