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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPES_england-air-force-base-history_Alexandria-LA.html
England Air Force Base, which officially closed on December 15, 1992, began as the Alexandria Army Air Base on October 16, 1942 and was formally activated on February 12, 1943, was comprised of 2,604 acres and had two runways — one north-sou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4X_first-offshore-oil-well_Morgan-City-LA.html
First producing offshore oil well out of site of land was completed Nov. 14, 1947in the Gulf of Mexicoforty-three miles South ofMorgan City, Louisiana
25th Offshore Anniversary, Inc.Chamber of CommerceMorgan City, Berwick, Patterson Area
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNHB_faubourg-trem_New-Orleans-LA.html
Located on a portion of the Morand-Moreau plantation sold by Claude Faubourg Trem? in 1810 to the city of New Orleans, it became the city's first subdivision and is considered to be America's oldest existing African American neighborhood. It was h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNGJ_fort-jackson_Buras-LA.html
Built 1822-32 to protect the lower river. Named for Andrew Jackson. 1862 - Fort withstood 10-day siege by Farragut and surrendered after city fell. In 1898 and 1917-18 used as training base. 1961 - Fort was declared a national monument.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNG0_tomb-of-the-unknown-slave_New-Orleans-LA.html
On this October 30, 2004, we, the faith community of St. Augustine Catholic Church, dedicate this shrine consisting of grave crosses, chains and shackles to the memory of the nameless, faceless, turfless Africans who met an untimely death in Faubo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNFP_saint-augustine-church-new-orleans_New-Orleans-LA.html
In 1841, this parish was established for the inhabitants of Faubourg Trem?. The joint beneficence of Bishop Antoine Blanc and the Ursuline nuns made possible acquisition of property and erection of the church. Until 1925, the buildings of the Coll…