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Unincorporated areas of interest in the parish include Barrett, Big Island, Blanche, Bring Hurst, Buckeye, Calcasieu, Campbell, Camp Stafford, Cedar Grove, Chambers, Clifton, Cloverdale, Crane, Deville Post Office, Echo, Elmer, Fitzgerald, Flatwoods, Green Gables, Hineston, Hijou, Hemphill, Holloway, Hotwells, Kings Field, Kolin, Lamourir, Latanier, Lena, Lewiston, Libose, Loyd, Moreland, Long Leaf, McNutt, Meeker, Melder, Oden, Osborn, Otis Post Office, Paradise, Poland, Rock Quarry, Rapides, Rodemacher, Roxana, Ruby Post Office, Shady Oaks, Sharp, Seiper Post Office, Spur, Tioga, Turpin, Union Hill, Valder Rouge, Vortex, Weil, West Port, Whittington, Willow Glen, Wrida, Zimmerman and Zimmerman Camp. |
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Kisatchie National Forest L.S.U. Alexandria Camp Livingston |
Cocodrie Lake Cotile Lake Kincaid Reservoir Lake Rodemacher Red River |
Mt. Olivet Episcopal Church State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy Thomas Overton Moore |
History | |
| 1802 July |
Gov. Salcedo gives permission to Carlos (Charles) Smith of Maryland to settle in Rapide with his slaves after he had taken an oath of loyalty to Spain. |
| 1805 |
When the Territory of Orleans is divided into counties the present-day Rapides Parish is part of Rapides County Alexandria was first surveyed as a town in 1805. |
| 1859 July |
The Olivet Episcopal Church is completed and consecrated by Bishop Leonidas Polk. Construction is supervised by Charles Schraeder, a native of Germany. The wife of Rev. Amos D. McCoy of church in Alexandria initiated the construction of the chapel. |
| 1860 |
Louisiana State University has its beginnings as the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy in Pineville with William Tecumseh Sherman as its first president. It will move to Baton Rouge in 1869. Trinity Episcopal Church in Cheneyville built of handmade brick in 1860 and designed in Gothic Revival with separate gallery for slaves. Consecrated by Bishop Leonidas Polk in 1861. The original congregation included several prominent planters of the surrounding area near Cheneyville in Rapides Parish. |
| 1899 |
James Wade Bolton, of a prominent Alexandria banking family, acquires property and builds his house, an example of Queen Anne Revival architecture in Louisiana. |
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Education |
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Director - Stephen L. Rogge 411 Washington St. Alexandria, LA 71301-8338 9 Branches - Alexandria, Boyce, Fuhrer, Glenmora, Gunther, Hineston, Johnson, Martin Luther King Memorial, Martin, Robertson, 3 Bookmobiles. Louisiana State University at Alexandria Director -Anna C. Burns 8100 Highway 71 S. Alexandria, LA 71302-9121 American Library Directory 1999-2000, R. R. Bowker |
