State Places Challenge -- A to Z

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Bear with me here - I could either think of tons of things, or mine are serious stretches. I'll try to add links later.

A = Andouilli Sausage and the Atchafalaya River Basin

B = Baton Rouge - our illustrious capital, Bossier City - where I work and
Bayous

C = Caddo Indians (I live in Caddo Parish), Cajuns and Cypress Trees

D - DeSoto - the parish and Spanish Explorer

E- Evangeline - the oak and the famous Longfellow Poem

F- Forests and Fishing - why we're known as the Sportsmans Paradise

G - Grand Isle (gorgeous scenery), Goodwill - town so small you can't
even send mail there, and Grosse Tete (yes there is a town named fat
head)

H - Huey P. Long - the man and the bridge
the heat and humidity that make up our climate

I - Iota and Iowa - great names for small towns in South Louisiana

J - Jefferson Davis Parish - yes we still have places named after the
president of the Confederacy

Jean Lafitte - famous pirate that got mixed up in the Battle of New
Orleans

K - Katrina, the Kisatchie National Forest, and the random names near where
I live of Keachi, Kickapoo, and Keithville

L - Lafayette, Lake Charles, Lagniappe, Laissez les bons temps rouler, La
Place (another weird place name)

M - Magnolia Trees, the Morganza Spillway (seen from US 190) and Monroe

N - Natchitoches - small town in North LA - tourist destination and filling in
for New Orleans in lots of movies

O - Ouachita (pronounced washitaw) and Opelousas

P - Petroleum Industry, Poverty Point (if you visit make sure they've mowed
the right paths)

Q - Questionable Politics - what we're most famous far

R - Red River, Rampart Street (for me all roads led here when I lived in New
Orleans - don't know how I kept ending up there)

S - Shreveport, Sulphur (I love descriptive place names) and the Sabine River

T - Tangipahoa (just try and pronounce that one) and Tchoupitoulas (street
in New Orleans and an old governor)

U - for the Universities - LSU, Loyola, etc. Go Tigers! BTW,
Mike the
Tiger just died

V - Ville Platte - small town where the Greyhound bus always stopped when I
was travelling from Shreveport to New Orleans overnight and Vieux
Carre - the I-10 exit to reach the French Quarter

W - Winnfield - proud home of Huey P. Long, Earl Long and OK Allen - see Q
for questionable politicians

X = XIV and XV as in Louis - the French Kings that Ruled Lousiana - the name
comes from Louis XIV

Y = Yellow Fever (an epidemic wiped out much of Shreveport in 1873)
Y'at and Y'all - phrases heard in Louisiana

Z - Zwolle - everyone must eat at least on Zwolle Tamale in their lives and
Zachary Taylor - the only president ever from Louisiana

[click here for an index to the states]