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This expansion into the Florida Parishes is another effort by LANO to provide leadership, resources and forums to strengthen Louisiana's communities one nonprofit at a time. LANO ... celebrated the opening of LANO North in February, Nonprofit Central and LANO New Orleans in June, LANO Southwest in July and LANO Baton Rouge in August.
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The coming of railroads to the Florida Parishes introduced yet another novelty, new at least in its degree of impact. The railroad companies either directly or indirectly promoted the establishment of a large number of towns, villages, and hamlets that were planned, platted, and laid out before any settlers took up lots. More than fifty planned settlement agglomerations were built in connection with railroads, sawmills, or both. These planned settlements soon overwhelmed the mere eleven towns that antedated such sweeping renovation.
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FLORIDA PARISHES CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE -- National guardsmen and state troopers shield black marchers from onlookers near Denham Springs during their 1967 trek from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge. More than 800 National Guardsmen were ordered by Louisiana Governor John McKeithen to provide additional protection. The Bogalusa march and other Civil Rights era events in the Florida Parishes are detailed in a new episode of the Southeastern Channel’s “Florida Parishes Chronicles,” airing Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. on Cable Channel 18.
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The effect that stands out for material culture is one of incorporation of the Florida Parishes into national trends, matched by the reinterpretation of these trends in terms of local patterns. New building techniques served old house plans. New styles and plans found distinctive expression in heart pine and cypress. Newly available horticultural material found uses in old garden concepts. The Great September Storm, a severe hurricane of 1909, felled untold millions of board feet of timber, spurring the entry of lumber companies and the associated "dummy lines" (small industrial railroads) as they rushed to salvage the timber before it was lost to usefulness. Landowners gladly cooperated with the removal of the timber, often taking part of their pay in cut lumber.
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LANO is formally opening new operations in Covington this month to bring their services to nonprofit organizations in the Florida Parishes. Already, LANO’s operations on the Northshore resulted in the Southeast Louisiana Nonprofit Summit on June 22, 2006.
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There was great instability and rampant crime in West Florida. The Spanish did not set up courts to handle disputes, and the forts had small garrisons. “Army deserters and desperadoes came here, exploiting the absence of an effective justice system,” writes Hyde in his book. Even the planters in the Territory of Mississippi were anxious about getting their crops to New Orleans. “All roads south crossed some part of West Florida,” Hyde points out.
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