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Saving St. Francisville History, One Frame At A Time
By Anne Butler
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday,” said Nobel...
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St. Francisville Noted For Its Unique Culinary History
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Barnum’s traveling company performed from Nashville where they visited General Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage, on down through Vicksburg where ...
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More than a century covering the news in a historic little Louisiana river town ...
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Slip back into the 19th century as one of a growing number of re-enactors
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As the rest of Louisiana and the country celebrate the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans, that iconic mismatch of 11,000 veteran redcoats against an outnumbered ragtag band of pirates, militiamen, Kaintuck sharpshooters, Creole aristocrats and a troop of Feliciana Horse, St. Francisville remembers its own connections to this pivotal fight. Because after the 1815 battle that would save New Orleans from the British and give Americans a sense of national identity for the first time, after demonstrating the brilliant leadership that led to his election as the seventh president of the United States, General Andrew Jackson spent the night at The Cottage Plantation in St. Francisville. And you can, too.
As 2015 dawns, St. Francisville steps into the future with a number of improvements, from the grand new library and prospects of a commodious new hospital to several much anticipated new restaurants and shops. But location scouts have long appreciated the little town’s ability to step BACK in time, the many preserved historic structures making it possible to throw some dirt on the streets and…voila!...it’s the 19th century.
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Picnicing in the Parks
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