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January 1871
January 6, 1871 A member of the Twelfth Night Revelers, masked as Santa Claus tosses gifts from float. The new organization, Carnival’s second, introduces the grand march at a masked ball, selects Mardi Gras’ first queen by drawing a golden bean from a king cake. |
February 1871
In one of his first reportorial assignments George Washington Cable writes about the 1871 parade of the Mystic Krewe of Comus. Its theme is the Ferie Queen a poem my Edmund Spenser. Cable devoted most of a column on page one and all of page two to a literary discussion of the poem. The subjects of his Drop Shot column are varied and often satirical. In one he announces his intentions to run for mayor and to despise my relations, if I am elected and persistently resist any attempts to thrust them into office .The act establishing Webster Parish from a portion of Claiborne Parish was approved on February 27, 1871 and the first courthouse was built in Minden the following year. |
March 1871
March 2 Red River ParishRed River Parish is created by the legislature from other parishes in the area. The parish seat is at Coushatta Chute on the east bank of the river. Most of the town's citizens had moved the year before from Springville, on higher ground last year. Like other parishes created during the Reconstruction era Red River was created to give more offices, and power, to the carpetbag rulers. Webster Parish is created by an act of the Louisiana state legislature from parts of Bossier, Claiborne and Bienville parishes. |
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| The State acquires land from the Fourcher plantation that will become Audubon Park. The World’s Industrial and Cotton Exposition will be held there in 1885. Loyola and Tulane Universities and Audubon Place are also on portions of this land. | George Washington Cable builds a house at 1313 Eighth Street 9 feet above the ground thinking that it would make it safe from yellow fever. Nevertheless he loses a child six months later. Lafcadio Hearn works for the Daily City Item and the Times-Democrat. He writes several books including Chita about the Last Island Hurricane. He will die in 1904 in Japan where he is hailed as a literary genius. |
Bonnet Carre Crevasse. In 1871 on this bonnet-shaped curve of the Mississippi River near LaPlace in St. John the Baptist Parish, a disastrous break in the levee cut a wide channel to Lake Pontchartrain. The crevasse is closed in 1883. Bonnet Carre Spillway will be completed in 1932. | Protestant Episcopal Church of the Incarnation is incorporated. In 1872 the Rev. Herman Cope Duncan, missionary to this area, became the first rector. The Zion Lutheran Church at 1924 St. Charles Avenue is designed by German Architect Albert Deittel in the Gothic Revival style and dedicated this year. |
The Lacour Store built in Pointe Coupee Parish circa 1870 by Ovide LaCour is an outstanding example of a plantation store. Owned and operated by LaCour and his descendants until 1975. Entered into National Register of Historic Places in 1979. |
David Bannister Morgan BIRTHS Red River ParishRed River Parish Webster Parish |
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