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The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), also known as The Exhibition or The Ex, is an annual fair that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on the third Friday of August leading up to and including Labour Day, the first Monday in September. With approximately 1.6 million visitors each year, the CNE is Canada's largest ...
The Cane River (French: Rivière aux Cannes) is a 30-mile-long (48 km) river [1] in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, originating from a portion of the Red River.In the 19th and 20th centuries, it gained prominence as the locus of a Creole de couleur (multiracial) culture, [2] centered around the Melrose Plantation and the adjacent St. Augustine Parish (Isle Brevelle) Church.
LA 13 Truck begins: Eastern end of LA 13 concurrency; western end of LA 13 Truck concurrency; southern terminus of LA 13 Truck: 85.8: 138.1: LA 13 Truck / LA 1111 Spur north (Tower Road) to I-10 – Eunice: Eastern end of LA 13 Truck concurrency; southwestern terminus of LA 1111 Spur: 86.0: 138.4: LA 1111 Spur (Odd Fellows Road) to I-10 – Eunice
Isle Brevelle is an ethnically and culturally diverse community, which began as a Native American and Louisiana Creole settlement and is located in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. For many years this area was known as Côte Joyeuse (English: Joyous Coast). It is considered the birthplace of Creole culture and remains the epicenter of Creole art ...
The park and the St. Augustine Parish (Isle Brevelle) Church in Natchez have been included as featured destinations on the state's Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. The roughly 116,000 acres (470 km 2 ) Cane River National Heritage Area begins just south of Natchitoches and extends south and west for about 35 miles (56 kilometers along ...
The Oakland Plantation grounds and structures are within the Cane River Creole National Historical Park, in the National Park Service's Cane River National Heritage Area. [2] [3] The plantation is situated on a bend of the Cane River Lake, with access by Louisiana Highway 119 in the Bermuda community near the parish seat of Natchitoches.
The center of Hurricane Francine draws closer to the Louisiana coast, as seen in a color adjusted satellite image, at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 11, 2024 Francine brings tornado threat to Southeast
The current route of US 71 in Louisiana follows or closely parallels the 1926 alignment north of Lebeau. Between Port Allen and Lebeau, US 71 originally followed present-day LA 76 to Rosedale, LA 77 to Ravenswood, and LA 10 to Lebeau, crossing the Atchafalaya River by ferry at Melville. In 1935, US 190 was extended west onto a newly built ...