
- 320 pages
- English
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About this book
A good local history is an excellent and agreeable thing. It pleases on two counts. It satisfies the curiosity of the inhabitants of a region, whether newcomers or old settlers, especially if no adequate history had existed before. It dispels myths, corrects old wives' tales. And, if the history is first-rate, it goes beyond a factual account of persons and places, the particularities of a region, and shows the significance of these human happenings in a larger scheme of things, in this case the emergence of a new nation. Ellis's history succeeds on both counts. It is a delightful and authoritative account of lore which not even St. Tammanyites may have heard of. Did you know, for example, that there was once a flourishing wine industry in St. Tammany Parish? That local vineyards produced excellent red and white wines, the red from Concord grapes, the white from Herbemont? Did you know that in 1891 a rice crop of 50, 000 barrels was harvested, half the entire output of South Carolina?... Ellis has rendered this pleasant and authoritative history in a graceful and lively style and with a genuine affection for the people he writes about. Walker Percy From the Foreword
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Foreword
- Preface
- Prologue
- Chapter I: Discovery
- Chapter II: Geology and Geography
- Chapter III: Ancient Indian Cultures
- Chapter IV: St. Tammany Indian Tribes
- Chapter V: The French Colonial Period
- Chapter VI: The English Colonial Period
- Chapter VII: The Revolutionary War
- Chapter VIII: The Spanish Colonial Period, 1779-1803
- Chapter IX: The Spanish Colonial Period, 1803-1810
- Chapter X: The West Florida Rebellion
- Chapter XI: The American Colonial Period
- Chapter XII: Statehood, 1812-1820
- Chapter XIII: Economic Development, 1820-1855
- Chapter XIV: Effects of Growth
- Chapter XV: The Beginning of Decline
- Chapter XVI: The Civil War
- Chapter XVII: Reconstruction and the End of the Decline
- Chapter XVIII: Recovery and the Railroads
- Chapter XIX: Post Reconstruction Economy
- Chapter XX: Post Reconstruction Agriculture
- Chapter XXI: Population Growth and New Towns
- Chapter XXII: Approaching the Twentieth Century
- Chapter XXIII: Resorts
- Chapter XXIV: Entering the Twentieth Century
- Chapter XXV: Covington Grows Up
- Chapter XXVI: The Other Towns
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index