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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 ...
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.
Joseph Rusling Meeker (born in Newark, New Jersey, 21 April 1827; died in St. Louis, Missouri, 27 September 1887) was an American painter, known for his images of the Louisiana bayou. Art historian Estill Curtis Pennington called him "the foremost articulator of the romantic Louisiana landscape in the 19th century."
Josephine Meeker (1857-1882), American teacher and physician; Jotham Meeker (1804-1855), Baptist missionary to the Indians in Kansas; Judith Meeker, American founder of More Than Warmth; Leonard C. Meeker (1916–2014), American politician, lawyer and diplomat; Marie Meeker (1886–1960), known as Dainty Marie, American vaudeville performer
North Louisiana and Gulf Railroad NL&G, NLG 1906 1987 MidLouisiana Rail Corporation: Subsidiary of the Huie-Hodge Lumber Company. Acquired smaller lines like Louisiana & North West in the 1940s. Acquired by Kansas City Southern but name still survives as a leased asset. [8] North Louisiana and Texas Railroad: IC: 1868 1875
Leon Godchaux (June 10, 1824 – May 18, 1899) [1] [2] was a French-born American businessman, planter, sugar plantation owner and the founder of the Leon Godchaux Clothing Co. department store and Godchaux Sugars Inc..
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.
Nathan Cook Meeker was born in Euclid, Ohio on July 12, 1817, [1] [a] to Enoch and Lurana Meeker. [1] He had three brothers. Meeker was a writer and submitted articles to area publications when he was a boy. [1] He left home at 17 years-of-age for New Orleans, where he worked as a copy boy for the New Orleans Picayune.