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| South America & Caribbean: Independence of Bolivia. Arggentina and Brazil battle over Uraguay. Haitian sugar production at a low point. | |||||||||||
| North America:John Quincy Adams is the winner of last November's presidential election by a vote in the House of Representatives. The Erie Canal opens cutting freight time from three weeks to one between the Great Lakes and New York City and quickening development of settlements from Chicago to New York. Trading post established where Omaha stands today in old Louisiana Territory. The New York Stock Exchange opens to trade in canal companies as well as turnpikes, gas lighting companies and mining companies. Rutgers Colleges, Amherst College | |||||||||||
| Europe: France compensates the nobility for losses durint the French Revolution. Sir Walter Scott | |||||||||||
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January 1825
Henry S. Johnson becomes Governor. |
February 1825
On February 11th Governor Henry S. Johnson signs legislation creating the Parish of Jefferson out of the Third Senatorial District. It is named for President Thomas Jefferson, who died the following year on July 4th. |
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April 1825
American Revolutionary War Hero, Marie Joseph Paul Ives Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, 67, visits New Orleans April 9-15, 1825. During his visit to New Orleans, his popularity was evidenced by resounding cheers of Vive Lafayette!. He had declined the invitation to become the first governor when the United States purchased Louisiana. Lafayette Square was planned in 1788 as a public place for Faubourg Ste. Marie, the city’s first suburb. The General is accompanied by his son, George Washington Lafayette, a secretary and a valet and Fanny Wright 26, a British author and heiress who had accompanied Lafayette since 1821 and is thought to be his lover. |
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| The legislature creates the Internal Improvements Board which directs construction of roads levees and bridges. Agrarian cultivation multiplys rapidly. | The Penal Code of Louisiana is drafted by Edward Livingston, Lislet and Pierre Derbigny. | College of Orleans fails and state support is shifted to the College of Louisiana in Jackson, which will become Centenary College, The college was transferred to the Methodist Church in 1845 and relocated at Shreveport in 1908, Centenary is the oldest privately operated liberal arts college west of the Mississippi. | Enterprise Plantation, in St.
Mary Parish is established by Pierre Simeon Patout in 1825. Originally
intended as a vineyard, the plantation was converted to sugar cane. It
is the oldest complete working sugar cane plantation in the United States.
Noted Revolutionary War Colonel Wade Hampton purchases La Maison Blanche (White Hall Plantation) a Spanish colonial plantation home St. James Parish. White Hall changed hands several times before it burned about 1850. Edward Livingston Monfort Wells James Wilkinson Caroline E. Merrick |
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