Louisiana page

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 Ponchatrain 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 wetlands area in America.

*The oldest city in the Louisiana Purchase Territory is Natchitoches, Louisiana founded in 1714.

*The first bottler of Coca-Cola, Joseph Biedenharn, lived in Monroe, Louisiana and was one of the founders of Delta Air
Lines, initially called Delta Air Service.

*Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the largest predominantly black university in America.

*Baton Rouge was the site of the only battle of the American Revolution 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 Chretien Point, in Sunset, Louisiana was copied for Tara in "Gone with the Wind."

*Louisiana is the No. 1 producer of crawfish, alligator 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 WWII 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 Chartes Street in the French Quarter. These early
medicinal mixtures became known as 'cocktails' (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.

VIVA LA LOUISIANE ! ! ! !

(c) 2008 by Anonymous