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Landmark Attractions In Louisiana

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Louisiana is a state in the Deep South region of the southeastern United States. It is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Louisiana is bordered by Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and the state of Texas to the west. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties. The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans. Much of the state's lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leavin...
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  • 1. Jackson Square New Orleans
    Jackson Square is a historic park in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, for its central role in the city's history, and as the site where in 1803 Louisiana was made United States territory pursuant to the Louisiana Purchase. In 2012 the American Planning Association designated Jackson Square as one of America’s Great Public Spaces.
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  • 2. Laurel Valley Village Thibodaux
    Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation is located in Thibodaux, Louisiana. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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  • 3. Bourbon Street New Orleans
    Bourbon Street is a street in the heart of New Orleans' oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter, in New Orleans, Louisiana. It extends 13 blocks from Canal to Esplanade Avenue. Known for its bars and strip clubs, Bourbon Street's history provides a rich insight into New Orleans' past.
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  • 4. Evangeline Oak Saint Martinville
    Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, located in St. Martinville, Louisiana, showcases the cultural significance of the Bayou Teche region. It is the oldest state park site in Louisiana, founded in 1934 as the Longfellow-Evangeline State Commemorative Area. Evangeline was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's enormously popular epic poem about Acadian lovers, who are now figures in local history. In the town center, the Evangeline Oak is the legendary meeting place of the two lovers, Evangeline and Gabriel. A statue of Evangeline marks her supposed grave next to St. Martin of Tours Church. The state historic site commemorates the broader historical setting of the poem in the Acadian and Creole culture of this region of Louisiana. Several historic buildings are showcased at Longfellow-Evangelin...
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  • 5. New Orleans Musical Legends Park New Orleans
    The Senator Nat G. Kiefer University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena is an 8,933-seat multi-purpose arena located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The arena is home to the University of New Orleans Privateers men's and women's basketball teams.It was built in 1983 and is named in honor of Nat G. Kiefer, the late state senator who aided UNO's efforts to obtain state funding for the building. It is part of the university's East Campus, where most of the school's athletic facilities are located.
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  • 7. Warehouse District New Orleans
    This is a list of warehouse districts that are notable. A warehouse district or warehouse row is an area found in many urban setting known for being the current or former location of numerous warehouses. Logistically, warehouses are often located in industrial parks, with access to bulk transportation outlets such as highways, railroads, and airports. The areas where warehouses are typically built are often designated as special zones for urban planning purposes, and can have their own substantial infrastructures, comprising roads, utilities, and energy systems. In many instances, where changing social and economic conditions have made it unfeasable to maintain an existing warehouse district, cities or communities will invest in converting the district to other purposes for which this infr...
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  • 9. Atchafalaya Basin Bridge Baton Rouge
    The Atchafalaya River is a 137-mile-long distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River, and is the fifth largest river in North America, by discharge. The name Atchafalaya comes from Choctaw for long river, from hachcha, river, and falaya, long.
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  • 10. St. Roch Market New Orleans
    The St. Roch Market is a building on the median of St. Roch Avenue facing St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans. It was built in 1875, with extensive renovations in 1937-1938 and 2012-2015. The ancestor of what became the St. Roch Market was a city market originally constructed in 1838 in the New Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, as an open-air market on Washington Avenue . The neighborhood itself was originally called the New Marigny, an extension of the slightly older Faubourg Marigny neighborhood on the other side of St. Claude Avenue. After a yellow fever epidemic in the early 1870s in which many neighborhood residents survived, the street, neighborhood, and the market itself was renamed as the St. Roch neighborhood after Saint Roch for the saint's patronage of ...
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  • 13. Tulane University New Orleans
    Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is considered the top university and the most selective institution of higher education in the state of Louisiana with an acceptance rate of 17 percent for the class of 2022. From a nationwide perspective, U.S. News & World Report categorizes Tulane as most selective, which is the highest degree of selectivity the magazine offers. The school is known to attract a geographically diverse student body, with 85 percent of undergraduate students coming from over 300 miles away.The school was founded as a public medical college in 1834, and became a comprehensive university in 1847. The institution was made private under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884....
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  • 14. Villalobos Pitbull Rescue Center New Orleans
    Pit Bulls & Parolees is an American reality television series on Animal Planet that seeks to combat misconceptions about pit bulls, a category of related and oft-stigmatized dog breeds. The series debuted on October 30, 2009. It features the Villalobos Rescue Center and was originally located in Agua Dulce, California; however, the organization has relocated to the Greater New Orleans area in Louisiana. It is the United States' largest pit bull animal shelter.Founder Tia Torres appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on September 24, 2014, and stated that her organization has approximately 400 dogs and that increased viewership has resulted in four times as many dogs being directed to her organization.
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  • 15. Chartres St New Orleans
    Fort de Chartres was a French fortification first built in 1720 on the east bank of the Mississippi River in present-day Illinois. It was used as an administrative center for the province. Due generally to river floods, the fort was rebuilt twice, the last time in limestone in the 1750s in the era of French colonial control over Louisiana and the Illinois Country. A partial reconstruction exists of this third and last fort. The site is now preserved as an Illinois state park and is four miles west of Prairie du Rocher in Randolph County, Illinois. It is south of St. Louis, Missouri in the floodplain area that became known as the American Bottom. The site and its associated buildings were placed on the National Register of Historic Places and recognized as a National Historic Landmark on Oc...
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