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Established March 17, 1883, The Alexandria Town Talk is a daily newspaper for Alexandria-Pineville and the thirteen parishes which comprise central Louisiana. The newspaper was owned by the family of the late Jane Wilson Smith and Joe D. Smith, Jr. , until March 1996, when it was sold to Central Newspapers.
On December 7, 1810, William C. C. Claiborne, governor of the Orleans Territory, annexed the short-lived Republic of West Florida to the United States and Louisiana as Feliciana County. On December 22, 1810, the county west of the Pearl River was organized in four civil parishes: East Baton Rouge, Feliciana, St. Helena, and St. Tammany.
Lower view of the Rapides Parish Courthouse The main branch of the Rapides Parish Library is located in downtown Alexandria. Rapides Parish (/ ˈ r æ p iː d z /) (French: Paroisse des Rapides) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 130,023. [1]
The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (in case citations, W.D. La.) is a United States federal court with jurisdiction over approximately two thirds of the state of Louisiana, with courts in Alexandria, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Shreveport. These cities comprise the Western District of Louisiana.
The town was named for settler William Cheney. [3]Cheneyville is significant in the history of the Restoration Movement associated with Alexander Campbell.In 1843 most of the membership of a Baptist congregation, under the leadership of William Prince Ford, who had been influenced by Campbell's writings, became a Church of Christ.
The Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan area in central Louisiana that covers two parishes – Rapides and Grant. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 152,192 (though a July 1, 2023 estimate placed the population at 148,171).
Incumbent's late arrival caused Lafourche to join an exclusive club, those few parishes whose coroners are not licensed physicians.
Louisiana Highway 8 passes through the center of town, leading east 2 miles (3 km) to U.S. Route 71 and south 12 miles (19 km) to Boyce. Alexandria is 26 miles (42 km) to the southeast. According to the United States Census 2010, Colfax has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km 2), or 0.54%, is water. [5]