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Florida Parishes: Areas
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Photographs depict geological features in the Florida Parishes and other areas in Louisiana and Mississippi. The collection covers areas near Port Hudson, St. Francisville, Bayou Sara, Jackson, Kentwood, Roseland, Franklinton, Slidell, Varnardo, Hammond, and Covington, Louisiana. Photographs illustrate creeks, bluffs, eroded landforms, roads, vegetation, farms, and buildings. Included are depictions of gravel dredging and washing sites near Jackson, Kentwood, and Roseland, Louisiana.
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Sports flourish in Florida, with large stadiums in Jacksonville, Tampa, and the Miami area attracting major university and professional events. Many Floridians avidly follow collegiate gridiron football each autumn, with the state's major universities typically fielding some of the best teams in the country. The National Football League is represented by teams in Tampa Bay (Buccaneers), Miami (Dolphins), and Jacksonville (Jaguars). The National Basketball Association has teams in Miami (Heat) and Orlando (Magic). Major League Baseball has franchises in Miami (Marlins) and Tampa Bay (Devil Rays), and there are National Hockey League teams in Tampa Bay (Lightning) and the Fort Lauderdale–Miami area (Panthers). The Basque sport of jai alai enjoys great popularity in the state's urban areas.
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In overview, then, the Florida Parishes should be seen as having undergone a fairly diverse and rapid frontier development from roughly 1770 until 1820. For the next two generations, little new ethnic diversity arrived, while the old diversity became increasingly unified by a common historic experience. From 1880 until about 1920, new elements again entered and gradually established their distinct areas, even as they absorbed much of the antecedent regional Anglo-British culture. Another period from 1920 until 1950 left the region's culture relatively isolated except for Baton Rouge. After 1950, a reinvigorated economy again made the Florida Parishes attractive to settlers, now chiefly on the margins of metropolitan New Orleans--the Northshore--and Baton Rouge. These urban, generally literate people bring us to the point where we now evince an interest in oral traditional culture, and where it is important to avoid quaint, romantic, and picturesque stereotypes to grasp the quotidian character of the actual experiences of the forebears of the Florida Parishes.
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