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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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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Baton Rouge, Louisiana hosted the 1983 Special Olympics International Summer Games at LSU.