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Louisiana
Just in case Hurricane Katrina causing the levees
to break in New Orleans
is the only thing you know about Louisiana, read
the following to learn a
few more facts:
Louisiana has the tallest state Capitol in the
nation at 450 feet.
The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans is the
largest enclosed stadium in
the world.
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest
over-water bridge in the
world at 23.87 miles.
Louisiana's 6.5 million acres of wetlands are the
greatest in the nation.
The oldest City in the Louisiana Purchase
Territory is Natchitoches,
founded in 1714.
The first bottler of Coca-Cola, Joseph Biedenharn,
lived in Monroe, La.
Delta Airlines got its start in Monroe.
Southern University is the largest predominantly
black university in the
nation.
Baton Rouge was the site of the only American
Revolution battle outside
the 13 colonies.
The formal transfer of the Louisiana Purchase was
made at the Cabildo in
New Orleans on December 20, 1803.
The staircase at Chretien Point, in Sunset, was
copied for Tara in "Gone
With the Wind".
Louisiana is the No. 1 producer of crawfish,
alligators and shallots in
the
nation.
Louisiana produces 24 percent of the nation's
salt, the most in the
country.
Much of the world's food and oil passes through
the Port of Orleans.
Tabasco holds the second oldest food trademark in
the U.S. Patent Office.
Steen's Syrup Mill is the world's largest syrup
plant, producing sugar
cane syrup.
America's oldest rice mill is in New Iberia at
KONRIKO Co.
The International Joke Telling Contest is held
annually in Opelousas.
The Louisiana Hayride radio show helped Hank
Williams, Elvis Presley and
Johnny Cash achieve stardome. It was broadcast
from KWKH R
adio in
Shreveport from 1948.
So there!! Now you know the rest of the story!!!!
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