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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M19_civil-war-cannon_LaPlace-LA.html
Found in Lake Pontchartrain in St. John the Baptist Parish, one-half mile from Ruddock in 1977. Used as a one-gun battery to guard the railroad along the western side of the lake. It never came under attack.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LQC_laplace_LaPlace-LA.html
Town of LAPLACE named when a railroad stop was established on the Bazile Laplace plantation in 1883. Post office followed in 1887.It was first named Eugenia, then renamed LAPLACE in 1892.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LQA_woodland-plantation_LaPlace-LA.html
Acquired in 1793 & 1808 by Manuel Andry,a commandant of the German Coast. Major 1811 slave uprising organized here. Ory Bros. & A. Lasseigne were last owners of plantation. Its subdivision in 1923 spurred the growth of LAPLACE.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LQ9_a-montz_LaPlace-LA.html
Armand Montz Sr., 1887~1968. Built ice & packing plant in 1914; remodeled in 1930s. Packed and shipped vegetables to various parts of the U.S. Frozen food pioneer. His plant was important factor in local economy.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LQ8_bonnet-carre-crevasse_LaPlace-LA.html
In 1871 on this bonnet shaped curve of the Mississippi River a disastrous break in the levee cut a wide channel to Lake Pontchartrain. Crevasse closed in 1883. Bonnet Carré spillway completed in 1932.
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