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  Encyclopedia: Rapides Parish, Louisiana
The parish seat is Alexandria and as of 2000, the population is 126,337.
Rapides Parish was formed in 1807 by the government of the Orleans Territory.
In the parish the population is spread out with 27.20% under the age of 18, 9.50% from 18 to 24, 27.90% from 25 to 44, 22.40% from 45 to 64, and 13.10% who are 65 years of age or older.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rapides-Parish,-Louisiana   (502 words)

  
 Rapides Parish Page Locale
While Louisiana is a land of infinite variety, nowhere is this more evident than at the Crossroads.
The land area is 1322.7 square miles (846507 acres); the water area is 39.4 square miles (25201 acres).
Rapides Parish is located at latitude 31.20 degrees North, longitude 92.54 degrees West.
www.lapage.com /parishes/rapid.htm   (208 words)

  
 Rapides Parish Clerk of Court's office in Alexandria, Louisiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Office of the Clerk of Court is established by the Louisiana Constitution.
Under the Constitution, the Clerk is the Recorder of Mortgages, Clerk of the District Court and the Election Officer of the parish.
The Rapides Parish Clerk's Office is self-supporting and operates on the fees collected for services rendered.
www.rapidesclerk.org   (407 words)

  
 Vanderlick-Leckie Family
Mary Louise Girard was born December 10, 1855 in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
She was born in Columbia, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana and is the daughter of John Conley and Rebecca Catherine Neal Havard.
One of the Louisiana Fuqua surnames that is known to have originated from an alternate spelling of the Fouquier surname.
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 Rapides Parish Louisiana 1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans
It is possible to locate a free person on the Rapides Parish, Louisiana census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published indexes almost always do not include the slave census.
The term "Parish" is used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated.
In Louisiana in 1860 there were 371 farms of 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census, and another 1,161 farms of 500-999 acres.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~ajac/larapides.htm   (1522 words)

  
 Rapides Parish Louisiana personals service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rapides Parish Louisiana Personals dating service for singles looking for love and romance.
Rapides Parish Louisiana Social groups, dating spots, single parents, places to meet, where to find personals ads.
Rapides Parish Louisiana Free personals, advice on writing personal ads, chat rooms, and singles dating services.
personals-service.matchmakerintros.com /profileforum/1364.html   (341 words)

  
 Rapides Parish Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While Rapides Parish offers all of the business amenities and services which appeal to commercial establishments, it also affords its residents a high quality of life with good schools, low crime rates and abundant recreational opportunities.
While the parish is home for many commuters, Rapides Parish provides an excellent location for lighter industries that convert the raw materials produced in those areas, such as seafood processing and petrochemical products.
Louisiana State University has its beginnings as the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy in Pineville with William Tecumseh Sherman as its first president.
www.enlou.com /parishes/rapides-parish.htm   (359 words)

  
 Rapides Parish Alexandria, Louisiana (Counties)
The parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, is Alexandria.
The parish population on July 1, 1999, was 126,775, a decrease of 4,781 over the 1990 census.
Alexandria is located in Rapides Parish (of which it is the parish seat), within the Crossroads...
www.ohwy.com /la/y/y22079.htm   (285 words)

  
 Rapides Parish, LA
Cotton Island, Louisiana -- Newly analyzed evidence in the two-week Bigfoot hunt seems to support law enforcement's opinion that someone's milking the long-legged legend for all it's worth.
Herds of people have been combing this heavily wooded area of northeast Rapides Parish since the end of August, when two loggers reported seeing the hairy creature.
The Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office has even said they plan on investigating the hoax as a crime.
www.bigfootencounters.com /articles/rapides.htm   (391 words)

  
 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD  Alexandria
The Rapides Parish School Board of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, met in special session at 4:05 o'clock on Monday, November 18, 2002, at the regular meeting place of said board in the Rapides Parish School Board Office, Sixth and Beauregard Streets, in Alexandria, Louisiana.
that Loretta Cooper be admitted to the Rapides Motivational Center for the remainder of the 2002-2003 school year and thereafter be readmitted to the zoned school, conditioned upon a probationary agreement to be executed by the student, parent, and Superintendent within five days, otherwise the principal's recommendation is upheld.
Board voted unanimously that Matthew Stoffel remain at the Rapides Motivational Center for the assigned time pending a report from the Guidance Counselor and thereafter be readmitted to the zoned school, conditioned upon a probationary agreement to be executed by the student, parent, and Superintendent within five days, otherwise the principal's recommendation is upheld.
www.rapides.k12.la.us /agendas/minutes/111802.htm   (2442 words)

  
 Descendants of John McAfee Sr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
[507],[326] Born on 8 Aug 1881 in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
[507],[326] Born on 13 Mar 1884 in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
[507],[326] Born on 1 Dec 1887 in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
www.drizzle.com /~jtenlen/Register/RR01/RR01_155.HTML   (245 words)

  
 Rapides Parish County Louisiana Tax Lien Certificate Sale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although this investment is not well publicized, it is the safest ways of investing in Louisiana real estate.
It is designed to give the investor either a fixed return, or complete control of a piece of real estate for pennies on the dollar.
To learn more about how to secure your future with Louisiana tax lien certificates, please take a few moments to read about our limited time offer.
www.taxcertificatesource.com /County/Louisiana_RapidesParish_County_Tax_Lien_Certificates.asp   (293 words)

  
 Business Wire: Rapides Parish Communications District 911, Lou... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rapides Parish Communications District, which handles emergency 911 calls for Rapides Parish, purchased VisionCAD.
Rapides Parish Communications District 911 consists of 14 emergency professionals.
Under the terms of the contract, Rapides Parish Communications District purchased VisionCAD, a computer-aided dispatch software that provides telecommunicators with an interface to enhance 911 services and the ability to dispatch units from multiple departments.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:96396823&refid=ink_tptd_g1   (506 words)

  
 Hoppa - Everything in Rapides Parish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pineville, Pineville, Colleges, Baptist Louisiana College is a private liberal arts institution in Central Louisiana.
A dedicated faculty and staff is focused on pushing students to grow academically, spiritually, emotionally and socially during their college career.
Alexandria, Libraries The public library system for Rapides Parish, Louisiana - committed to providing informational, cultural, educational and recreational materials to the people of central Louisiana.
hoppa.com /us/se/la/rapide   (62 words)

  
 Wright-Boyd Family Papers
News of Louisiana and plantations includes the relation of a yellow fever outbreak (Sept.-Oct., 1853) and the destruction of homes and crops through storms (Sept. 27, 1854).
Letters to Mary, Ellen and Augustus Wright include a description of Christmas day in Rapides (Dec. 25, 1854), a request to Ellen to send her whiskey for Christmas (Nov. 19, 1856), and the journey of Esther and her mother to Kentucky to attend Augustus in his last illness, and on his death (Sept., 1877).
When forced to return to Louisiana, Crawford left these papers in the hands of a law firm, Lawrence and Frost, who subsequently closed their firm and moved away from Texas, losing the Wright papers.
www.lib.lsu.edu /special/findaid/w3362.html   (8129 words)

  
 FEMA: Louisiana Selects Rapides Parish For FEMA's CHER-CAP Grant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Denton, Texas, August 23, 2001 -- Rapides Parish, Louisiana will receive a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to improve the community's emergency response procedures.
Are the emergency teams in Rapides Parish prepared and trained to respond to these hazardous incidents?
The state selected Rapides Parish for this grant because of their interest in constantly improving their response to hazardous materials, according to Col. Mike Brown, State Director of the Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness.
www.fema.gov /regions/vi/2001/r6_22.shtm   (357 words)

  
 Debt and Loans Rapides Parish Louisiana
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Rapides Parish, LA Insurance Quotes Finding insurence in Rapides Parish can be difficult without a quality...
www.aparalegal.org /Rapides-Parish-Louisiana.html   (441 words)

  
 Rapides Parish Police Jurors Departments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Police Jury of the Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana, was duly convened as the governing authority of said Parish by Hon.
He felt the Parish Engineer needed to inspect the proposed location to determine whether the effluent water would drain into the ditch or not, with requirements such as LDOTD for a minimum of 100' of field line and discharge on the upstream side of the ditch.
The Parish of Rapides and this Police Jury shall not be liable in any manner for the payment of said Bonds, and no funds of the Parish or the Police Jury shall be pledged to the payment thereof.
www.rppj.com /021201.htm   (7354 words)

  
 Rapides Parish, Louisiana, Posted Queries for
He was a physician and practised in Louisiana for 12 years before he died at the young age of 44.
She was born in Louisiana, father was Jerry, mother was Rebecca, brothers are William, James,Benjamin, and Nicolas.
Sisters are Sarah Jane and Elizabeth.They are in the 1850 and 1860 census in Rapides Parish.
www.rootsweb.com /~larapide/queries/query048.htm   (1052 words)

  
 Louisiana Parish Books
Some of these books can be found at the large booksellers on the internet, at some parish libraries, and some large university libraries in and outside of Louisiana.  The books are grouped alphabetically according to parish.  I have noted the books locations I know of at the bottom.
Rapides Parish Pensioners in the War of 1812
Some of books that are located at these libraries are noted by number within the parentheses.
www.geocities.com /PicketFence/Garden/5624/parishbooks.html   (1389 words)

  
 Lawyers Rapides Parish Louisiana: Lawyers and Attorneys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An Unusual Parish History Louisiana has sixty-four parishes and many of them are as individual and different as that state itself is different from others in the Union.
James Parish, a small parish of 249 square miles, is not only one of the oldest settlements in the state, but it is "different" in its population make-up and is important historically.
When the woman`s father is found fatally stabbed, she is arrested and Cray returns to being a trial lawyer and defends her against a prosecuting attorney, who is also his ex-lover.
www.edgsolicitors.co.uk /899.html   (790 words)

  
 Historic Kent Plantation House, Alexandria Louisiana.
The plantation house is one of the oldest standing structures in the state of Louisiana.
Together with its outbuildings, it preserves the homestead of a successful Creole family typical of a Louisiana colonial era working plantation.
Located in the center of Louisiana, Kent Plantation House is a wonderful experience in touring, with plenty to see and do.
www.kenthouse.org   (170 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Rapides Parish, La.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to parishes is subject to error.
U.S. Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1933-37; elected unopposed 1932; state court judge in Louisiana.
U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1933-48; elected unopposed 1932, 1944; died in office 1948; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana,
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/LA/RA.html   (768 words)

  
 Rapides Parish, Louisiana Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although the parish website on rootsweb.com is good, it represents only a TINY fraction of the material available in Alexandria.
The parish courthouse, the genealogical library and the parish library all have tons of information.
Just keep in mind that all the data is from 1864 on, as Union troops burned the old courthouse to the ground during the civil war.
www.afrigeneas.com /forum/index.cgi?noframes;read=19777   (148 words)

  
 ATSDR - Health Consultation - Ruston Foundry, Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
At the request of concerned residents, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (LDHH), Office of Public Health (OPH)/Section of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology (SEET), reviewed the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Record of Decision (ROD) for the Ruston Foundry site located in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, Section of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology.
The Ruston Foundry Health Consultation was prepared by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals under a cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/rustonfoundry/fou_p1.html   (2156 words)

  
 Rapides Parish, Louisiana Genealogy and History
At the same time volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page.
The Louisiana USGenWeb Project is an extension of the KY USGenWeb Project.
The person responsible for Rapides Parish is Morgan Edward Johnson.
www.rootsweb.com /~larapide   (251 words)

  
 Rapides Parish, LA - Rapides Parish, Louisiana - Genealogy guide - ePodunk
Libraries in Rapides Parish include Boyce Branch, Carl N Gunter Sr.
Cemeteries in Rapides Parish include Alexander Memorial Gardens, Alexandria National Cemetery, Anandale Cemetery, Ball Cemetery, Ballard Cemetery, Belgard Cemetery, Bethel Cemetery, Bnai Israel Cemetery, Boyce Cemetery, Bradford Cemetery...
Communities in Rapides Parish include Alexandria, Ball, Boyce, Calcasieu, Cheneyville, Forest Hill, Glenmora, Lecompte, McNary, Pineville...
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genealogyInfo.php?locIndex=3548   (252 words)

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