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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPNI_the-hotel-bentley_Alexandria-LA.html
The hotel was built in 1907-1908 by Joseph A. Bentley, prominent lumberman and businessman. Bentley came to Central Louisiana from Pennsylvania to engage in the sawmill business and the cutting of the virgin pine forest which was the first serious…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPNH_louisiana-maneuvers_Alexandria-LA.html
In 1940 Lt. Gen. Stanley D. Embrick of the U.S. Army Fourth Corps Area, Atlanta, Ga., selected central Louisiana as site of training maneuvers to prepare American forces for possible involvement in war in Europe. Louisiana's 1941 maneuvers were th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPNG_emmanuel-baptist-church_Alexandria-LA.html
The Alexandria and Pineville Baptist Church was organized in Pineville, Louisiana, on September 6, 1881, with twelve charter members. The name of the Church was changed to Emmanuel Baptist Church on March 30, 1892. In 1897, a wooden Sanctuary at F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPNF_commercial-building_Alexandria-LA.html
Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMS_alexandrias-oldest-hospital_Alexandria-LA.html
The Alexandria Sanitarium, founded by six area physicians, was opened January 1, 1903 in a former hotel at Second and Lee streets "to provide for a skillful treatment of medical and surgical cases of any nature." In 1905 the first building at Thir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMQ_alexandria-library_Alexandria-LA.html
This site, located in the town's center square, was set aside for public use on the original town plat commissioned by Alexander Fulton in 1805. The building was constructed solely for advancement of culture and learning in 1907 by Caldwell Brothe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMP_thomas-courtland-manning_Alexandria-LA.html
Side No. 1On this site in 1906, the City Library known as the Manning Memorial Library was opened, named in honor o a 19th century resident who served his State and his Nation. Hundreds of his personal volumes were donated to this library, which c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMO_alexandria_Alexandria-LA.html
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Unnamed during the colonial period, Alexandria's beginnings as the major city in central Louisiana are traced to ca. 1797, when the "seat of justice" for Rapides Post was transferred from the north to the south bank of Red River. By 1799…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMM_kent-plantation-house_Alexandria-LA.html
Kent House, the oldest known standing structure in Rapides Parish, was built by Pierre Baillio, completed in 1800. Baillio constructed the house on land received through a Spanish land grant circa 1794.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPML_post-civil-war-alexandria_Alexandria-LA.html
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After having been ravaged by fire during the Civil War, Alexandria was rebuilt and, with the building of railroads after Reconstruction, regained its place as the commercial, financial, medical and transportation center of central Louisi…