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| South America & Caribbean: Sugar production decreasing after end of slavery. | ||||||||||||
| North America:The revolt in Canada two years ago leads its governor-general to resign and suggest self rule, which Parliament considers this year. Economic depression in the states causes Pennsylvania and Maryland to default on European bonds. Goodyear vulcanizes rubber; power loom in Mass. Nauvoo Ill. has 10,000 people, mostly Mormons driven from Missouri. Beginnings of Boston University, Virginia Military Institute and University of Missouri. Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Samuel F. B. Morse makes first Daguerrotypes in American and adds important contributions to to the field. Baseball rules created by West Point cadet Abner Doubleday. Audubon completes his bird paintings. | ||||||||||||
| Europe: The Spanish Civil War ends with defeat of Carlist forces. Socialist journalist Louis Blanc: To each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities. First real bicycle in Scotland. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. Photographic processes by Louis Daguerre (presented now to the French Academy of Arts and Sciences) and William Henry Fox Talbot are gaining popularity. Opera by Verdi, Berlioz. Rugby rules at Cambridge University. | ||||||||||||
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March 20. Shreveport incorporated. |
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| Andre Bienvenu Roman elected Governor of Louisiana for a second, non-consecutive term. | State Armory built behind the Cabildo in New Orleans. | The Red River Patriot and Shreveport Literary Register in Shreveport. U. S. Mint begins coinage in New Orleans. |
Union Parish is created out of the northern part of Ouachita County and Farmerville is made the parish seat. | The town of Milneburg consists of a few houses, the Washington and Arch Hotels, a grocery, two barrooms and a bakery. It was named for Alexander Milne, a Scottish philanthropist who owned much of what is now the New Orleans Lakefront. In 1831 the Pontchartrain Railroad made Milneburg its lake-end terminal and added to its fame as a resort. The Milneburg pier was later built with many camps that could be rented for parties. Black musicians, bands and jazz flourished there. In the 1930s the popularity of Milneburg began to wane as the West End and Pontchartrain became big attractions. The development of a seawall along the lake, prohibition and the last run of Smokin’ Mary in 1932 signaled the end of the village and in 1934 a fire destroyed all that remained. |
Jacques Telasphore Roman, a wealthy French sugar planter and brother-in-law of Valcour Aime builds a Greek Revival plantation on the River Road near Vacherie, hoping to lure his new bride to the country. He calls it Bon Sejour, but it is widely known as Oak Alley Plantation. The magnificent alley of twenty-eight oaks eighty feet apart predate the house, possibly by a hundred years. The trees are matched by twenty-eight two story doric columns that surround the house. It will be restored by Mrs. Andrew Stewart in 1925 and supported by the nonprofit foundation that she started. It has tours and a bed and breakfast.
Jean Baptiste Labatut |
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