August 4, 2022

The Garden District

  After the United States took over the Louisiana Territory New Orleans experienced an influx of settlers from the Northern. But the city was still very French and did not cotton to the invasion of these new Americans.   So this area is where these new New Orleanians built their own neighborhood of grandiose and fabulous homes. Many international celebrities have bought homes here and some have moved here permanently.   When the Americans started to move into the city after

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The Cajun Country

  Acadiana, also known as the Cajun Country, is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state’s Francophone population.   Many inhabitants of the Cajun Country have Acadian ancestry and identify as Cajuns or Louisiana Creoles. Of the 64 parishes that make up the U.S. state of Louisiana, 22 named parishes (our name for counties) and other parishes of similar cultural environment make up this intrastate region.     But there is

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