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Washington has a reputation of being a speed trap; that is, a town where traffic laws are enforced extremely strictly as a means of generating revenue. A 2007 report from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor found that more than 50% of the town's revenue came from traffic-related fines in the 2005 fiscal year. It was one of 15 such towns. [17]
Washington Parish (French: Paroisse de Washington; Spanish: Parroquia de Washington) is a parish located in the interior southeast corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana, one of the Florida Parishes. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,463. [2] Its parish seat is Franklinton. [3] Its largest city is Bogalusa. The parish was founded in ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
This organized the state into seven judicial districts, each consisting of groups of parishes. In 1816, the first official map of the state used the term parish, as did the 1845 constitution. Since then, the official term for Louisiana's primary civil divisions has been parishes. The 19 original parishes were joined by Catahoula Parish in 1808.
English: This is a locator map showing Washington Parish in Louisiana. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Bogalusa (/ ˌ b oʊ ɡ ə ˈ l uː s ə / BOH-gə-LOO-sə) is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States.The population was 12,232 at the 2010 census.In the 2020 census the city reported a population of 10,659.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1 ...
The Washington Historic District in Washington, Louisiana is a 210 acres (85 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [ 1 ] The listing included 200 contributing buildings and three contributing sites , comprising about 80 percent of the town of Washington, in 1978.