Forgotten Baton Rouge
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Forgotten Baton Rouge
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Author : Douglas L. Villien Sr.
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2015
Forgotten Baton Rouge written by Douglas L. Villien Sr. and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Discover Baton Rouge's bygone days of booming growth and the influence of its renowned residents. For nearly two centuries, Baton Rouge remained a sleepy little river town. Situated on the first bluffs of the Mississippi River north of the Gulf of Mexico, it was prime real estate for habitation. Images of America: Forgotten Baton Rouge collects a plethora of lost images of this city's greatest period of expansion: from the 1890s to the 1930s. This era began when Louisiana State University moved to the grounds of the old US Army arsenal, followed by a corporate decision from John D. Rockefeller to build a Standard Oil Company refinery at Baton Rouge. These historic decisions, coupled with the forward-thinking actions of bold businessmen and politicians like Robert A. Hart and Huey P. Long, changed the face of the city forever.
The Forgotten River
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Author : Greg Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Forgotten River written by Greg Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with City planning categories.
The Forgotten People
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Author : Gary B. Mills
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2013-11-13
The Forgotten People written by Gary B. Mills and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-13 with History categories.
Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced their homes, and private tutors educated their children. Cultured, deeply religious, and highly capable, Cane River's Creoles of color enjoyed economic privileges but led politically constricted lives. Like their white neighbors, they publicly supported the Confederacy and suffered the same depredations of war and political and social uncertainties of Reconstruction. Unlike white Creoles, however, they did not recover amid cycles of Redeemer and Jim Crow politics. First published in 1977, The Forgotten People offers a socioeconomic history of this widely publicized but also highly romanticized community -- a minority group that fit no stereotypes, refused all outside labels, and still struggles to explain its identity in a world mystified by Creolism. Now revised and significantly expanded, this time-honored work revisits Cane River's "forgotten people" and incorporates new findings and insight gleaned across thirty-five years of further research. This new edition provides a nuanced portrayal of the lives of Creole slaves and the roles allowed to freed people of color, tackling issues of race, gender, and slave holding by former slaves. The Forgotten People corrects misassumptions about the origin of key properties in the Cane River National Heritage Area and demonstrates how historians reconstruct the lives of the enslaved, the impoverished, and the disenfranchised.
Louisiana Place Names
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Author : Clare D’Artois Leeper
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2012-10-19
Louisiana Place Names written by Clare D’Artois Leeper and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-19 with Reference categories.
From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mamou in between, researcher Clare D'Artois Leeper offers an alphabet of Louisiana place names, both past and present. Leeper includes 893 entries that reveal a distinct view of the state's history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom results in an entertaining guide to Louisiana's place name lore. Leeper considers the origins of each place as well as each name, drawing attention to the individuals who transformed Louisiana from an uninhabited wilderness into a populated state. Not surprising for a region that has existed under ten flags, Louisiana's place names reflect a mixture of several languages and point to other locales across the country and around the world. Even the state's name, Leeper points out, combines the French Louis and the Spanish iana, meaning "belonging to" Louis XIV. Name origins trace back to geography, flora, fauna, religion, weather, people, and occasionally, a flood, a favorite book, or a popular local dish. Leeper conducted numerous interviews, visited courthouses, museums, and libraries, and more recently made use of the Geographic Names Information System to create this fascinating collection of Louisiana history and folklore.
How Beauty Was Saved
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Author : Mrs. James Madison Washington
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-22
How Beauty Was Saved written by Mrs. James Madison Washington and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-22 with categories.
Excerpt from How Beauty Was Saved: And Other Memories of the Sixties Baton Rouge, Louisiana, there was a modest little schoolhouse called the Dove's Nest. To that school came two young girls to complete a course of study begim in Baton Rouge before the Federals captured that city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Levee
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Author : Malcolm Shuman
language : en
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
Release Date : 2014-07-15
The Levee written by Malcolm Shuman and has been published by Overamstel Uitgevers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Fiction categories.
A true-crime writer returns home to solve the mystery that haunted his boyhood After witnessing an execution, true-crime writer Colin Douglas starts having nightmares of himself as a boy, alone by the levee, trapped in the mud of the Mississippi River. Each night, the dreams grow worse, becoming horrid recreations of the day his childhood died. In 1959, Colin and three friends went camping on the levee, across from the tumbledown old Windsong plantation. When one of the boys disappeared, Colin went searching for him, and was approaching the old estate when he saw what appeared to be a ghost. The next day, he learned a woman had been murdered in the area—an unsolved crime that has haunted him ever since. Decades later, he attempts to solve this forgotten cold case, raking up something even dirtier than the muddy bottom of the Mississippi.
Pointe Coupee S Patriots
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Author : Randy Decur
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Pointe Coupee S Patriots written by Randy Decur and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with Creoles categories.
"This is the almost once forgotten story of a few dozen men from Point Coupee who fought in Bernando Galvez' Spanish army during the American Revolution. These French Creole soldiers who made up the Point Coupee Militia participated in capturing Baton Rouge from the British through the battles of Manchac and Baton Rouge. The Louisiana Colony was far removed from the 13 original colonies, yet still played an important role in the American Revolution by keeping the Mississippi River out of British control. Inside is their story, focusing on the men whose names appear on a 1777 roll call of the Pointe Coupee Militia"--back cover.
Address Of Hon B F Jonas At The Laying Of The Corner Stone Of The Monument
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Author : Benjamin Franklin Jonas
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-07-14
Address Of Hon B F Jonas At The Laying Of The Corner Stone Of The Monument written by Benjamin Franklin Jonas and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-14 with Political Science categories.
Excerpt from Address of Hon. B. F. Jonas, at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Monument: To the Memory of the Confederate Dead at Baton Rouge, February 22d, 1886 Over twenty years have past since the last gun was fired in the civil war, and since the last soldier who gave his life to the cause which he espoused was gathered to his rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Forgotten Areas Of City Park New Orleans
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Author : Marianne Reese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Forgotten Areas Of City Park New Orleans written by Marianne Reese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with City Park (New Orleans, La.) categories.
Dark And Bloody Ground
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Author : Thomas Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Dark And Bloody Ground written by Thomas Ayres and has been published by Taylor Trade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
This book chronicles not only the remarkable military victory at Mansfield but the subsequent engagements that forced Union forces into an ignominious withdrawal.