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Georgetown is located in the northeast corner of Grant Parish at (31.764210, -92.382340 U.S. Route 165 runs through the village, leading northeast 31 miles (50 km) to Columbia and south 33 miles (53 km) to Alexandria.
Grant Parish is part of the Alexandria, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area and Red River Valley. From 1940 to 1960, the parish had a dramatic population loss, as many African Americans from the plantation areas left in the Great Migration to seek better opportunities in the North and West. Such migration continued until about 1970.
LA 500 initially travels due east from US 167 along the Grant–Winn parish line. It then curves southeast through the Kisatchie National Forest and proceeds into the village of Georgetown. Here, the highway crosses the four-lane US 165 and zigzags north and east through the center of town. Heading southeast from Georgetown, LA 500 crosses the ...
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Georgetown University’s Jesuit founders sold nearly 300 enslaved people to Louisiana sugarcane planters in 1838 to pay off the university’s The post La. exhibit tells story of nearly 300 ...
Friendship, its sister village, was founded in 1841 after the purchase of Plantation Friendship. [3] The two were later joined to form the village of Buxton-Friendship, which is commonly called Buxton. Buxton Village was founded when a group of 128–132 former slaves from Annandale purchased the 580-acre plantation for 50,000 dollars. The 700 ...
Cedarvale Park was home to the orphaned Armenian boys brought to Georgetown in 1923. Scott McLaughlin, a native of Scotland, emigrated to Canada and settled in Glen Williams. In the 1870s McLaughlin purchased 80 hectares of land on the southeast limits of the village of Georgetown and called it Cedar Vale Farm. Michael, Scott and Rachel ...
RB Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers: McCaffrey was the No. 1 overall pick in nearly all early fantasy drafts, but we all know about his long-term injury that delayed the start of his ...