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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 ...
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 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.
Louisiana House Bill 71 (H.B. 71), or Act 676, [1] was a law passed by the Louisiana State Legislature and signed by Governor Jeff Landry in June 2024 that directs schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Louisiana entrance sign off Interstate 20 in Madison Parish east of Tallulah. Louisiana [pronunciation 1] (French: Louisiane ⓘ; Spanish: Luisiana; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) [b] is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east.
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
An act entitled, "An act to provide for the calling of a Convention for the purpose of re-adopting, amending or changing the Constitution of the State", was approved March 18, 1845, and the senatorial and representative delegates met August 5, 1844 to update or replace what had been considered to be an outdated constitution of 1812. [10]