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Airline Highway is a divided highway in the U.S. state of Louisiana, built in stages between 1925 and 1953 to bypass the older Jefferson Highway.It runs 115.6 miles (186.0 km), [1] carrying U.S. Highway 61 from New Orleans northwest to Baton Rouge and U.S. Highway 190 from Baton Rouge west over the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long Bridge.
August 27, 2020 – Hurricane Laura, as a high-end Category 4 hurricane, made landfall near the Louisiana–Texas border in Cameron Parish and simultaneously tied the 1856 Last Island hurricane as the strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall in Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. Storm surge as high as 17 feet was ...
The Louisiana Wing of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) (French: Patrouille Aérienne Civile de l'Escadre de Louisiane; Spanish: Ala de Luisiana Patrulla Aérea Civil) is the highest echelon of Civil Air Patrol in the state of Louisiana.
Krotz Springs is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Atchafalaya River. The population was 1,198 at the 2010 census , down from 1,219 in 2000 . It is part of the Opelousas – Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area .
Louisiana Highway 1030 (LA 1030) runs 0.43 miles (0.69 km) in a general north–south direction along Cockerham Road from the Denham Springs city limit to a junction with LA 1026 northeast of Denham Springs. [39]
Washington Parish was formed in 1819 by splitting off from St. Tammany Parish. Franklinton was designated as the parish seat on February 10, 1821.. Washington Parish is the most northeasterly of what are called the Florida Parishes.
The Denham Springs Collegiate Institute was a school founded by a group of Denham Springs, Louisiana residents in 1895. The Institute included a large meeting hall and a smaller wooden framed building. It had a four-year curriculum. The Institute was located on the site of the existing First Presbyterian Church on North College Drive.
Mandeville is a city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.As of the 2020 United States census, [2] its population was 13,192. Mandeville is located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, south of Interstate 12.