Natchitoches Christmas Festival 2007 Parade
Experience the charm of the original French colony in Louisiana (1714) during the Festival of Lights and Christmas Festival, one of the nation's oldest community-based holiday celebrations.
The Festival of Lights begins November 18 and lasts into the New Year. The Natchitoches (Nack-a-tish) Christmas Festival has been held on the first weekend in December since 1927. This annual event draws in excess of 100,000 visitors each year for the parade, live entertainment, food fair, arts and crafts show and a spectacular fireworks show over the scenic Cane River Lake.
Mini-festivals are held every weekend in December with a Holiday Tour of Homes, entertainment and fireworks every Saturday and at midnight on New Year's Eve. More than 500,000 visitors annually trek to Natchitoches during the holiday season to enjoy the light displays, riverbank vendors, shops, restaurants, and nightly tours by streetcar or carriages
1045 Williams Avenue, Natchitoches, Louisiana
Charming Williams Avenue Carriage House. This home has been recently updated with new paint, flooring and hardwood stairs. This home feature heart pine floors upstairs, new wood laminate floors downstairs, a fenced back yard, 2 central a/c - heat units, a great location and tons of charm. For more information contact Brad Ferguson 318-527-9001 Brad Ferguson Real Estate, 501 Second Street, Natchitoches, Louisiana U.S.A. 318-354-7253 Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commision
Alexandria/Pineville Area - Best Weekend Getaway - Louisiana 2013
Art, Culture, Fun, are all words synonymous with Alexandria, the heart of Louisiana.
Located on the banks of the Red River, Alexandria-Pineville and the surrounding area form a center for hunting, fishing and sports tournaments and activities ranging from softball and soccer to golf and powerboat racing.
Thriving agriculture, historic landmarks, flourishing art and cozy bed-and-breakfasts are just some of what the Heart of Louisiana has to offer. In Alexandria/Pineville, residents and guests enjoy a treasured, peaceful lifestyle.
Steel Magnolia Bed And Breakfast 30 summer 2015
Magnolia Plantation I - Charleston, SC
Riding RT 61 on our way from Augusta, GA to Charleston, SC, we stopped at Magnolia Plantation to explore the stunning grounds that host one of the oldest plantations in the US
Kaffie & Fredericks Mercantile
Kaffie & Fredericks Mercantile is the oldest business in Natchitoches, the oldest city in Louisiana.
Leaving Natchez MS heading south...
Sitting on the river in Vidalia just across the bridge from Natchez Mississippi . Planning my next move. Time to push on!
Maison D'Memoire Bed & Breakfast Cottages : Louisiana Bed And Breakfast
Experience authentic Cajun Country at our award-winning Louisiana bed and breakfast. Choose from our 4 charming historic cottages, decorated with true Acadian flair and offering full kitchens, Jacuzzis, and a delicious full breakfast delivered to your door! Enjoy the perfect escape close to nearby attractions in Rayne and Lafayette, including the famous Hawk’s Restaurant and swamp tours. Book your getaway today:
Cane River Creole National Historical Park | Wikipedia audio article
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Cane River Creole National Historical Park
00:02:14 1 Magnolia
00:06:08 2 Oakland
00:10:29 3 Visiting Oakland and Magnolia
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Established in 1994, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park serves to preserve the resources and cultural landscapes of the Cane River region in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Located along the Cane River Lake, the park is approximately 63 acres and includes two French Creole cotton plantations, Oakland and Magnolia. Both plantations are complete in their historic settings, including landscapes, outbuildings, structures, furnishings, and artifacts; and they are the most intact French Creole cotton plantations in the United States. In total, 65 historic structures and over a million artifacts enhance the National Park Service mission as it strives to tell the story of the evolution of plantation agriculture through the perspective of the land owners, enslaved workers, overseers, skilled workers, and tenant farmers who resided along the Cane River for over two hundred years. This park is included as a site on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
A defining characteristic of the park is the conservation and interpretation of Creole culture. In colonial Louisiana the term Creole was used to indicate New World products derived from Old World stock, and could apply to people, architecture, or livestock. Regarding people, Creole historically referred to those born in Louisiana during the French and Spanish periods, regardless of their ethnicity. Today, as in the past, Creole transcends racial boundaries. It connects people to their colonial roots, be they descendants of European settlers, enslaved Africans, or the many of mixed heritage, which may include African, French, Spanish, and American Indian influences. The Prud'hommes of Oakland and the LeComtes of Magnolia were considered French Creole. As with others in the area, the homes and plantations of these families reflected the French Creole architectural style and way of life.
The historic landscapes and dozens of structures preserved at Oakland and Magnolia plantations are the setting for the stories of workers (enslaved and free) and late post-Civil War tenant farmers who worked the same land for over two centuries, adapting to historical, economic, social, and agricultural change. Today their descendants carry on many of their traditions.
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Natchez deals with the rising waters of the Mississippi River
Confederate Rest Cemetery Meets Point Clear Real Estate
Surrounded by Lakewood Golf Club on one side and upscale Point Clear neighboring homes, the cemetery sits under lush live oaks and Spanish Moss. See all Fairhope and Point Clear homes for sale
Examples of Historical Thinking - Narratives of Slavery - Conflicting Accounts
Historian Richard Follett analyzes two narratives of slavery: an investigative report written by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1853 for the New York Times and Solomon Northrup's book Twelve Years A Slave. He discusses each document separately and then compares their very different perspectives on slavery in Louisiana's sugar growing parishes. Follett models several historical thinking skills, including:
close reading, specifically the process of analyzing the language, meaning, and in some cases, the silences in both accounts;
attention to key source information, including who wrote each account, when, and for what purpose; and
exploring how to make sense of multiple perspectives and conflicting accounts to try to understand a complex system that affected individuals in radically different ways.
Technological and industrial history of the United States | Wikipedia audio article | Wikipedia ...
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The technological and industrial history of the United States describes the United States' emergence as one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world. The availability of land and literate labor, the absence of a landed aristocracy, the prestige of entrepreneurship, the diversity of climate and a large easily accessed upscale and literate free market all contributed to America's rapid industrialisation. The availability of capital, development by the free market of navigable rivers, and coastal waterways, and the abundance of natural resources facilitated the cheap extraction of energy all contributed to America's rapid industrialization. Fast transport by the very large railroad built in the mid-19th century, and the Interstate Highway System built in the late 20th century, enlarged the markets and reducing shipping and production costs. The legal system facilitated business operations and guaranteed contracts. Cut off from Europe by the embargo and the British blockade in the War of 1812 (1807–15), entrepreneurs opened factories in the Northeast that set the stage for rapid industrialization modeled on British innovations.
From its emergence as an independent nation, the United States has encouraged science and innovation. As a result, the United States has been the birthplace of 161 of Britannica's 321 Greatest Inventions, including items such as the airplane, internet, microchip, laser, cellphone, refrigerator, email, microwave, personal computer, Liquid-crystal display and light-emitting diode technology, air conditioning, assembly line, supermarket, bar code, automated teller machine, and many more.The early technological and industrial development in the United States was facilitated by a unique confluence of geographical, social, and economic factors. The relative lack of workers kept United States wages nearly always higher than corresponding British and European workers and provided an incentive to mechanize some tasks. The United States population had some semi-unique advantages in that they were former British subjects, had high English literacy skills, for that period (over 80% in New England), had strong British institutions, with some minor American modifications, of courts, laws, right to vote, protection of property rights and in many cases personal contacts among the British innovators of the Industrial Revolution. They had a good basic structure to build on. Another major advantage, which the British lacked, was no inherited aristocratic institutions. The eastern seaboard of the United States, with a great number of rivers and streams along the Atlantic seaboard, provided many potential sites for constructing textile mills necessary for early industrialization. The technology and information on how to build a textile industry was largely provided by Samuel Slater (1768–1835) who emigrated to New England in 1789. He had studied and worked in British textile mills for a number of years and immigrated to the United States, despite restrictions against it, to try his luck with U.S. manufacturers who were trying to set up a textile industry. He was offered a full partnership if he could succeed—he did. A vast supply of natural resources, the technological knowledge on how to build and power the necessary machines along with a labor supply of mobile workers, often unmarried females, all aided early industrialization. The broad knowledge of the Industrial Revolution and Scientific revolution helped facilitate understanding for the construction and invention of new manufacturing businesses and technologies. A limited government that would allow them to succeed or fail on their own merit helped.
After the close of the American Revolution in 1783, the new government continued the strong property rights established under British rule and established a rule of law necessary to protect those pro ...