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Paul Tulane, a businessman and philanthropist, who made much of his fortune in New Orleans, makes a large gift to the University of Louisiana which becomes Tulane University. The board of administrators of the Tulane Education Fund holds its first meeting on April 18. 1881. |
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Douglas McEnery becomes Governor of Louisiana when Louis
Alfred Wiltz dies from tuberculosis.
Marie Laveau the elder dies. |
New Orleans Board of Trade, LTD. founded. During the 1880s The New Orleans Northeastern Railroad bridge, completed across Lake Pontchartrain, is a seven mile long engineering feat. |
The NOPD chief of detectives Tom Devereaux is ambushed and murdered in a brokerage office on an October afternoon. The main suspects are two detectives Dave Hennessey and his cousin Mike who are acquitted of the murder. Mike moved to Houston and was mysteriously killed by shotgun three years later. Dave Hennessey will be killed in a similar manner in 1890 after becoming Superintendent of Police in New Orleans. |
The prosperous Democrat merges with the brilliantly edited Times to become the Times-Democrat. It is used by Major Burke as the voice of the Louisiana Lottery and the New Orleans Ring. Eclipse Brass Band formed. |
Planter John Burnside dies while traveling through White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. His age is estimated to be 78, but no one knows for sure. He was one of the few Southern millionaires leaving an estate of $6 million. His business goes to New Orleans associates Nelson McStea and Jesse R. Value. most of his holdings go to the daughter and son-in-law of Oliver Beirne who is William Porcher Miles. The Miles make Houmas House their home for many years. | The town of Pouppeville in Acadia Parish is named for the merchant Jules Pouppeville and dates back to the 1850s. Pouppeville was once a stagecoach stop. The town was disassembled, carried north by oxen one mile to meet the railroad, & rebuilt at Rayne Station in 1881. Locally known as Centerville, although the post office was named Springville the community served as the Livingston parish seat, 1881 to 1941. Site of first electrocution in state in 1941. Van Buren, the first parish seat, 1832-35, was on east bank. The town of Independence in Tangipahoa Parish is known as Uncle Sam when settled in the 1830s. Italian families began to arrive early in the 1880s. Because of its heritage, the town has come to be known as Little Italy. Downtown historic district created by city in 1982. |
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