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  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Tangipahoa ...

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    First Christian Church: August 2, 2017 : 305 E. Charles St. ... 56280 LA 445 Husser: 17: Independence Historic District ... 2 miles west of Ponchatoula on Louisiana ...

  3. Arthur Tasker - Wikipedia

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    Tasker led his church members to petition for and receive permission from the town leaders to purchase half the public square for $25 in August 1873. There, he established African Methodist Episcopal Church, Zion, in what is now Kiwanis Park in Ponchatoula. The church was the first school for many Black Americans in rural town across the states.

  4. List of parishes in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Pointe à la Hache: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. A word meaning persimmons created from the Louisiana Creole and the Atakapa language 22,386: 2,429 sq mi (6,291 km 2) Pointe Coupee Parish: 077: New Roads: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. French phrase la pointe coupée or in English, the cut-off point, which refers to a bend in ...

  5. Ponchatoula, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    The first Strawberry Festival was held in April 1972 on the first block of North 6th Street and was co-sponsored by the Ponchatoula Jaycees and the Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce. The first festival was small and only had 11 booths. It was a two-day event beginning with a baseball game between Southeastern Louisiana University and Wisconsin State.

  6. First Baptist Church - Wikipedia

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    First Baptist Church (Bakersfield, California), listed on the NRHP in Kern County First Baptist Church (Boron, California), Kern County First Baptist Church of Los Angeles, designated Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument 237 in 1981

  7. J. D. Grey - Wikipedia

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    Pastor, First Baptist Church of New Orleans, Louisiana J. D. Grey , sometimes known by his adopted name as James David Grey (December 18, 1906 – July 26, 1985), was a major figure in the Southern Baptist Convention and from 1937 to 1972 was the pastor of the large First Baptist Church of New Orleans , Louisiana .

  8. First Baptist Church in America - Wikipedia

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    The First Baptist Meetinghouse, also known as the First Baptist Church in America is the oldest Baptist church congregation in the United States. The Church was founded in 1638 by Roger Williams in Providence, Rhode Island. The present church building was erected between 1774 and 1775 and held its first meetings in May 1775.

  9. List of African American newspapers in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    The first African American newspaper in Louisiana was L'Union, a French-language newspaper launched in 1862. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first daily African American newspaper in Louisiana, and in the entire country, came two years later with La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans .