Lake Providence is a town in, and the parish seat of, East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana. The population was 5,104 at the 2000 census and declined...
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The Arlington Plantation is a historic plantation located near Lake Providence, Louisiana. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on...
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The Battle of Lake Providence was fought on June 9, 1863, during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. Confederate troops from the Trans-Mississippi...
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Mississippi Delta in northeastern Louisiana. As of 2020, its population was 7,459. The parish seat is Lake Providence. An area of cotton plantations in...
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The Nelson House on Davis Street in Lake Providence, Louisiana was a historic mansion listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 3,...
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historic mansion located along Harding Street in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was built in c.1905 by lumber company owner Joseph...
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The Old Courthouse Square in Lake Providence, Louisiana, in East Carroll Parish, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1980...
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Providence Historic District may refer to: Lake Providence Historic District, Lake Providence, Louisiana Providence Historic District (Providence, Ohio)...
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The Lake Providence Commercial Historic District is a 8 acres (3.2 ha) historic district in Lake Providence, Louisiana which was listed on the National...
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state of Mississippi." Skipwith's Landing Columbia, Arkansas Lake Providence, Louisiana Mississippi River in the American Civil War "Graveyard at Goodrich...
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Joseph E. Ransdell (category People from Lake Providence, Louisiana)
returned to Lake Providence to engage in real estate and growing cotton and pecans. He was a member of the board of supervisors of Louisiana State University...
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East Carroll Parish School Board (category Lake Providence, Louisiana)
Carroll Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Lake Providence, Louisiana, United States. The districts serves East Carroll Parish. In the...
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The Lake Providence Residential Historic District is a 13 acres (5.3 ha) historic district in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana which...
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Sam Wyly (category People from Lake Providence, Louisiana)
Wyly was born in 1934, to parents Flora and Charles Wyly Sr. of Lake Providence, Louisiana. His ancestors included Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers...
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Mose Jefferson (redirect from Providence Lake)
four felony counts of bribery. Mose Jefferson left his native Lake Providence, Louisiana, to join his older sister Betty Jefferson in Chicago, Illinois...
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Charles Wyly (category People from Lake Providence, Louisiana)
family's cotton farm in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana. He attended Delhi High School in Delhi, Louisiana, graduating in 1951...
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Louisiana State Cotton Museum is located in Lake Providence, Louisiana. The area has been a center of cotton growing, and the museum exhibits the history...
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Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1050-7. Media related to Sharecropping...
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North Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad (NL&AR) operates more than 62 miles of track, extending from McGehee, Arkansas to Lake Providence, Louisiana. The...
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William Jefferson (politician) (category People from Lake Providence, Louisiana)
Jefferson was born on March 14, 1947, in Lake Providence, the parish seat of East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana. He and his eight brothers and sisters...
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Vivien Thomas (category People from New Iberia, Louisiana)
autobiography, published shortly after his death, that he was born in Lake Providence, Louisiana, in 1910. Thomas was born during the Jim Crow era, to Willard...
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Edward Sparrow (category Burials in Louisiana)
Concordia Parish, Louisiana and three in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, including the Arlington Plantation in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Even in 1880,...
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Ken Frith (category People from Lake Providence, Louisiana)
Ken Frith Born: (1945-12-01) December 1, 1945 (age 78) Lake Providence, Louisiana, U.S. Career information CFL status American Position(s) DE, DT Height...
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Freddie Spruell (category People from Lake Providence, Louisiana)
sketchy and sometimes contradictory. Spruell was probably born in Lake Providence, Louisiana. He relocated with his family to Chicago, Illinois, when he was...
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churches, a four-room schoolhouse, a ferryman, and roads connecting it to Lake Providence, and Talluha. The settlement and the bend in the river were named for...
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Waddell to Transylvania. Louisiana Highway 582 (LA 582) runs 16.93 miles (27.25 km) from Redwing to Lake Providence. Louisiana Highway 583 (LA 583) runs...
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Vail Pittman (category People from Lake Providence, Louisiana)
when Vail Pittman was an infant, and the Pittmans were raised in Lake Providence, Louisiana, by their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Vail Montgomery. Vail Pittman...
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Byerley House (category Lake Providence, Louisiana)
Byerley House, located at the corner of Lake Street and Ingram Street in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, is a one-story house built in c.1902...
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murder; attempted murder and ambush of two police officers in Lake Providence, Louisiana – wounding one by three shotgun blasts. Caston was wanted for...
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