Louisiana - The Town of Jean Lafitte

Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, A world apart

This town was named after the pirate Jean Lafitte.

I looked up why they have an iris flower on the front and it is because they grow wild all over.

This postcard was postmarked in 2026. 

 

Louisiana - Springfield, Tickfaw State Park

 

Louisiana - New Orleans, The Corn Stalk Inn

The fact that Elvis stayed here is pretty cool! 

Louisiana - Epps, Poverty Point, Mound A

Mound A
The largest mound in North America at 1400 B.C.
Poverty Point World Heritage Site
Epps, Louisiana
2015

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Poverty Point comprises several earthworks and mounds built in the Americas by a group of Native Americans of the Poverty Point culture. The culture extended 100 miles (160 km) across the Mississippi Delta. The original purposes of Poverty Point have not been determined by archaeologists, although they have proposed various possibilities including that it was: a settlement, a trading center, and/or a ceremonial religious complex.

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On June 22, 2014, UNESCO approved Poverty Point as a World Heritage Site.

Louisiana - Baton Rouge State Capitol, 1947

Louisiana State Capitol at Baton Rouge
The Louisiana State Capitol, conceived and built by the late U.S. Senator Huey Pl Long, is the tallest building in the South, 34 floors, height to top of beacon light, 450 feet, located on the site of the old State University Campus on University Lake.
1941

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This U.S. Capitol building was dedicated on May 16, 1932.  However, now it is only the tallest building in Baton Rouge and the seventh tallest building in Louisiana.  It is the tallest capitol in the United States.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982.

Louisiana - Baton Rouge, The State Capitol at Night

The State Capitol at Night, Baton Rouge, La.

Photo by Francis Pullen

Thirty-four stories high.  Tallest building in the South, being 450 feet high.  There are 249,000 square feet of usable floor space.  Cost of Capitol $5,000,000.  Over 30 varieties of marble and stone were used in its construction, which were imported from Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Belgium.