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January 1927
January 31, 1927 William R. Irby who six years ago purchased the Lower Pontalba Building donates the building to the Louisiana State Museum. He bought the building for $68,000 from Michel Joseph Gaston Delfau de Pontalba grandson of the Baroness Pontalba who built the Pontalba Buildings. |
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April 1927
Mississippi River floods. New Orleans is first hit by rain on Good Friday April 15, 1927 and receives 14 inches in the next 24 hours. Most of the street cars were out of commission that evening. The city was flooded everywhere, uptown, downtown and back of town. By Saturday morning the Broadmoor area was under six feet of water, Canal street and the Vieux Carré were two feet under. The levees were holding but on April 23rd the molasses tanker Inspector rammed a hole in the levee at Junior Plantation 40 miles down river from Canal Street. The day before, 9,000 square miles had been inundated by a levee collapse 10 miles up river from Greenville, Miss. The Carrollton gauge recorded a river height of 20.4 feet and predicted a rise to 24 feet for early May. Boats were purchased or built by all citizens who also stockpiled canned foods. A committee of civic leaders urges Governor Simpson to order the levee at Caernarvon dynamited to relieve pressure. Reporters from all over the country gathered at the levee and several explosions brought only a trickle of water for the next 12 hours. 48 hours later a larger charge finally released the river. Herbert Hoover acted as flood relief director in is capacity as U. S. Secretary of Commerce.. The river overflowed its banks from Illinois to Louisiana and in some areas it was September before the water receded. Congress will pass the Flood Control Act in May of 1928. |
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| Between 1927 and 1938 the Carondelet Canal is filled in. | Formal opening of the Saenger Theatre | Shreveport s Dodd College is a private liberal arts junior college for girls, 1927-1942. Founded by Dr. M. E. Dodd, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Shreveport. Two original buildings now part of First Baptist Church. |
Edwin W. Edwards |
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