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facts about Louisiana
If Hurricane Katrina causing the levees to break in New Orleans is
the only thing you know about Louisiana , here are a few more
interesting facts about the Bayou State :
* Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building 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 wetland
area in America .
* The oldest city in the Louisiana Purchase Territory is
Natchitoches, Louisiana founded in 1714.
* The first bottler of Coca-Cola, Joseph Bie denharn, lived in
Monroe, Louisiana and was one of the founders of Delta Air Lines,
initially called Delta Air Service.
* Delta Airlines got its start in Monroe, Louisiana when Parish
Agent, C.E. Woolman, decided to try dusting the Boll Weevil that was
destroying the cotton crops in the Mississippi River Delta from an
airplane. It was the first crop dusting service in the world.
* Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the largest
predominantly black university in Ame rica.
* Baton Rouge was the site of the only American Revolution battle
outside the original 13 colonies.
* The formal transfer of the Louisiana Purchase was made at the
Cabildo building in New Orleans on December 20, 1803.
* The staircase at Chrétien Point, in Sunset, Louisiana was copied
for Tara in "Gone with the Wind."
* Louisiana is the No. 1 producer of crawfish, alligators and
shallots in America .
* Louisiana produces 24 percent of the nation's salt, the most in
America .
* Much of the world's food, coffee and oil pass through the Port of
New Orleans ..
* Tabasco , a Louisiana product, holds the second oldest food
trademark in the U.S. Patent Office.
* Steen's Syrup Mill in Abbeville, Louisiana is the world's largest
syrup plant producing sugar cane syrup.
* America 's oldest rice mill is in New Iberia, Louisiana at KONRIKO
Co.
* The International Joke Telling Contest is held annually in
Opelousas, Louisiana .
* LSU (The Ole War Skule) in Baton Rouge has the distinction of
contributing the most officers to WW II after the U.S. Military
academies.
* The Louisiana Hayride radio show helped Hank Williams, Elvis
Presley and Johnny Cash achieve stardom. It was broadcast from KWKH
Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana from 1948 to 1960.
* The term Uncle Sam was coined on the wharfs of New Orleans before
Louisiana was a U.S. Territory as goods labeled U.S. Were from "Uncle
Sam."
* The game of craps was invented in New Orleans in 1813 as betting
was a common activity on the wharves.
* When states had their own currency, the Louisiana Dix (French for
ten) was a favored currency for trade. English speakers called them
Dixies and coined the term Dixieland.
* New Orleans is the home of the oldest pharmacy in America at 514
Chartres Street in the French Quarter. These early medical mixtures
became known as ****tails (guess they were good for what ails ya?),
Coining yet another term.
* New Orleans is the birthplace of Jazz, the only true American art
form.
Jazz gave birth to the Blues and Rock and Roll music.
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