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| Louisiana Facts |
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Church Point, Louisiana boasts the designation "The Buggy Capital of the World". A festival celebrates this designation annually on the first weekend in June. |
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French speaking Acadians in the mid-1700s settled the Lafayette Parish region of south Louisiana. The Acadians were joined by another group of settlers called Creoles, descendants of African, West Indian, and European pioneers. |
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The Battle of New Orleans, which made Andrew Jackson a national hero, was fought two weeks after the War of 1812 had ended and more than a month before the news of the war's end had reached Louisiana. |
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