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Louisiana National Parks
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Cane
River Creole National Historical Park
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Cane River Creole
National Historical Park is located within the heritage area.
The park includes 42 acres of Oakland Plantation and 18 acres of
Magnolia Plantation outbuildings. Presently, there are no
National Park Service facilities open for visitation. The
administrative offices are located at the Oakland Plantation in
Natchez, Louisiana. There is much work to be accomplished.
Structures and artifacts require proper documentation,
preparation, and/or preservation for visitor use. The Cane River
National Heritage Area extends approximately one mile on either
side of the Cane River from the southern boundary of the City of
Natchitoches to Monette's Ferry. It also includes the Kate
Chopin House and the state commemorative areas of Los Adaes,
Fort Jesup, and Fort St. Jean Baptiste. The heritage area
includes a total of approximately 40,000 acres of privately and
publicly owned lands.
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Poverty Point National Monument
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Located in northeastern Louisiana, this
park commemorates a culture that thrived during the first and
second millennia B.C. This site, which contains some of the
largest prehistoric earth works in North America, is managed by
the state of Louisiana. State Park facilities are open to the
public. NO FEDERAL FACILITIES.
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New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
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New Orleans Jazz
National Historical Park was established to celebrate the
origins and evolution of America's most widely recognized
indigenous musical art form. A story rich with innovation,
experimentation, controversy and emotion, the park provides an
ideal setting to share the cultural history of the people and
places that helped shape the development and progression of jazz
in New Orleans. Through interpretive techniques designed to
educate and entertain, New Orleans Jazz NHP seeks to preserve
information and resources associated with the origins and early
development of jazz in the city widely recognized as its
birthplace.
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Jean Lafitte National Historic Park & Preserve
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Jean Lafitte National
Historical Park and Preserve was established to preserve for
present and future generations signifcant examples of the rich
and cultural resources of Louisiana's Mississippi Delta region.
The park seeks to illustrate the influence of environment and
history on the development of a unique regional culture.
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Cane River National Heritage Area
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The Cane River National
Heritage Area is a largely rural, agricultural landscape know
both for its historic Creole-style plantations and structures
and its unique people and culture. The area has been shaped by
almost 300 years of events--large and small, difficult and
joyous. Today it is home to a history and culture that has
evolved from those events, and from the people who have lived
them: the Europeans, the Native Americans, free and enslaved
Blacks, the Creoles of French, Spanish, African and American
Indian descent. Located primarily in Natchitoches Parish, the
Cane River Heritage Area includes five National Historic sites
(including the city of Natchitoches' National Historic Landmark
District), three State Historic Areas (including a replication
of the original 1714 French fort), the Cane River Creole
National Historic Park (two sites), and many historic
plantations, homes and churches. The central corridor of the
area begins just south of the City of Natchitoches. It meanders
south along both sides of Cane River Lake (once the Red River
before it changed course) for 35 miles. While much of the
roughly 45,000-acre heritage area is privately owned, many sites
are open to the public.
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