enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Grand Isle, Louisiana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Isle,_Louisiana

    Grand Isle is served by Jefferson Parish Public Schools. [43] The Grand Isle School serves pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Grand Isle Library is a small public library responding to the needs of local residents and visitors. The new Grand Isle Library opened on Wednesday, November 14, 2012. [44]

  3. List of plantations in Louisiana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plantations_in...

    Founded by Henry Watkins Allen and it was burned to the ground by during the American Civil War. The plantation was rebuilt after 1880 by another owner. Angola Plantation: Not applicable Angola West Feliciana: Had been Francis Routh's cotton plantation; and the land is now part of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [4] 82000469 Ardoyne ...

  4. List of place names of French origin in the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of...

    Grand Isle; Isle au Haut; Lagrange (for the Marquis de Lafayette's home) [154] Lamoine (for Andre Le Moyne, a local landowner) [154] Minot; Montville; Mount Desert Island; Paris (for the city in France) [154] Presque Isle (from the French word "presqu'île" meaning "peninsula"--- from presque meaning "almost", and isle meaning "island". The ...

  5. List of municipalities in Louisiana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in...

    Map of the United States with Louisiana highlighted. Louisiana is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Louisiana is the 25th most populous state with 4,657,757 inhabitants and the 33rd largest by land area spanning 43,203.90 square miles (111,897.6 km 2) of land. [1]

  6. Whitney Plantation Historic District - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Plantation...

    The district, including the main house and outbuildings, is preserved near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, on the River Road along the Mississippi River. What was originally known as Habitation Haydel was founded in 1752 by Ambroise Heidal, one of the many German immigrants who colonized the river parishes in the 18th ...

  7. First Katrina and now Ida: Some residents think about giving up

    www.aol.com/news/louisiana-towns-still-crawling...

    GRAND ISLE, La. (Reuters) -Jim King, 75, surveyed the damage to his home on Grand Isle, Louisiana, on Thursday, a house he rebuilt himself after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago.

  8. US Coast Guard Surveys Ida Damage in Grand Isle, Louisiana - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/us-coast-guard-surveys-ida...

    The US Coast Guard (USCG) conducted search and rescue operations and assessed damage along coastal Louisiana on Monday, August 30, after Hurricane Ida devastated the region.This footage, released ...

  9. Jean Lafitte, Louisiana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte,_Louisiana

    According to the 2020 United States census, there were 1,809 people, 604 households, and 446 families residing in the town. [13] At the 2019 American Community Survey, the racial and ethnic makeup of Jean Lafitte was 95.4% non-Hispanic white, 0.1% Black or African American, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.5% some other race, and 3.4% two or more races. [14]