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    Opelousas (French: Les Opélousas; Spanish: Los Opeluzás) is a small city and the parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. Interstate...
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    France named Louisiana as a colony and defined the land occupied by the Opelousa as the Opelousas Territory. The area south of the Opelousas Territory between...
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  • white supremacists while teaching a classroom of Black children in Opelousas, Louisiana. Rumors of Bentley's death, while unfounded, led both Black Republicans...
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    New Orleans, Louisiana Keller Library, New Orleans, Louisiana Le Vieux Village, Opelousas, Louisiana Java Square Cafe, Opelousas, Louisiana Ascension Parish...
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    The Opelousa (also Appalousa) were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands in Louisiana. They lived near present-day Opelousas, Louisiana, west...
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    "New-Orleans and Opelousas Regular Packet". The Opelousas Courier. June 12, 1858. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-07-23. "Steamboat". The Opelousas Patriot. August...
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    Paul Prudhomme (category People from Opelousas, Louisiana)
    Hazel Reed, Prudhomme was raised on a farm near Opelousas, the seat of Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. His father was a farmer, who struggled financially...
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    Clifton Chenier (category People from Opelousas, Louisiana)
    King of the South. Chenier was a native of Leonville, Louisiana, near Opelousas. He spoke Louisiana French as a first language. Chenier was exposed to music...
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    Keon Coleman (category People from Opelousas, Louisiana)
    Spartans and Florida State Seminoles. Coleman attended Opelousas Catholic School in Opelousas, Louisiana. He played both football and basketball in high school...
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  • AKDN may refer to: Acadiana Railway, a short line railroad based in Opelousas, Louisiana, United States Aga Khan Development Network, a multinational network...
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    village in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 742 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Opelousas–Eunice Micropolitan Statistical...
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  • John Peter Malveaux (category People from Opelousas, Louisiana)
    killer and rapist who committed between four and five murders around Opelousas, Louisiana from January to October 1997. Following his arrest and confession...
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    French) had settled around the Vermilion River between Lafayette and Opelousas, Louisiana to feast on a fish die-off. There is a related theory, consistent...
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  • Daily World is a Gannett-owned daily newspaper in Opelousas, Louisiana, United States. The Opelousas Daily World was founded by John R. Thistlethwaite...
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    James Bowie (category People from Opelousas, Louisiana)
    moved again in 1809, settling on Bayou Teche in Louisiana before finding a permanent home in Opelousas in 1812. Raised on the frontier, the Bowie children...
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    Cowboys in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft. Lamb was born in Opelousas, Louisiana, and lived in New Orleans until he and his family evacuated to Houston...
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    Area code 337 (category Area codes in Louisiana)
    Iberia, Louisiana Oberlin, Louisiana Opelousas, Louisiana Palmetto, Louisiana Parks, Louisiana Port Barre, Louisiana Rayne, Louisiana Scott, Louisiana St....
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  • Zydeco Force (category Musical groups from Louisiana)
    Zydeco Force was an American Creole zydeco band from Opelousas, Louisiana, United States. Zydeco Force is best known for its tracks "Hey Madeline" and...
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    Claire Babineaux-Fontenot (category University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni)
    people in the world. Born in Opelousas, Louisiana, Babineaux-Fontenot attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Southern University Law Center...
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    Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar (category Opelousas, Louisiana)
    "Bobby" Dunbar was the first son born to Lessie and Percy Dunbar of Opelousas, Louisiana. He was born on May 23, 1908. In August 1912, the Dunbars took a...
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    Lafayette–New Iberia–Opelousas combined statistical area is made up of six parishes in the Acadiana region of southern Louisiana. The statistical area...
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    of Louisiana Governor Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. Port Barre is located at the confluence of Bayou Courtableau and Bayou Teche, 8 miles east of Opelousas and...
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    Rezin Bowie (category People from Opelousas, Louisiana)
    permanent home in Opelousas, in St. Landry Parish, in 1812. That year, the Territory of Orleans became the U.S. state of Louisiana. By this time, Rezin...
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  • A Case for Solomon (category Opelousas, Louisiana)
    the disappearance and possible recovery of 4-year-old Bobby Dunbar in 1912 Opelousas, Louisiana. "New York Daily News. February 3, 2019. pg. 34". v t e...
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  • Opelousas Catholic School is a private, Catholic school in Opelousas, Louisiana. Located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette, the school offers...
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    The St. Landry Parish School Board is located in Opelousas, Louisiana. The St. Landry Parish School District is rated a C district. Mr. Milton Batiste...
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  • Split before the wedding Carlton Morton 34 Social Media Marketer Opelousas, Louisiana Danielle Drouin 27 Yoga Instructor Atlanta, Georgia Split before...
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    Brandt, Roger (December 8, 1974). "Blue Hens Sink Rebs". Daily World. Opelousas, Louisiana. p. 12. Retrieved February 4, 2017 – via newspapers.com. Patterson...
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    Zydeco (category Louisiana Creole culture)
    Migration, many French-speaking and Louisiana Creole-speaking Créoles from the area around Marksville and Opelousas, Louisiana left a poor and prejudiced state...
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    Elbert Guillory (category People from Opelousas, Louisiana)
    is a former member of the Louisiana State Senate. A Republican, he represented District 24, including his native Opelousas, and several rural precincts...
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