Subject: 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. Print this out folks this is stuff you all need to know. Hang it on the wall and teach your grandkids. SS399
*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 bridg e
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 Biedenharn, lived in West 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 t he first crop dusting service in the world.
* Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the largest predominantly black university in America.(A useless fact)
* 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 Chratien 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 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!!!
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