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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM240P_blackwater-conservation-area_Baker-LA.html
In the 1970's much of the park you are about to enter was mined as part of a commercial sand and gravel operation. Through this process the area was logged and stripped of its nutritious topsoil. The land that had once been a viable hardwood fores…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VF_comite-river_Baker-LA.html
Parent soil material along the Comite includes quartz and sand crystals, which differ significantly from the alluvial mud that characterizes the Mississippi River Basin.The Comite River begins in East and West Feliciana parishes and joins the Amit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QB3_town-of-baker_Baker-LA.html
Baker was one of the original stations on the Mississippi Valley Railroad in 1884, and a post office was established here in 1888. Much of the town is on the site of the former Baker Plantation owned by Josephus Baker between 1845 and 1851. Good l…