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See also:LAKE See also:CHARLES , a See also:city of See also:Louisiana, U.S.A., See also:capital of Calcasieu See also:Parish, 30 M. from the Gulf of See also:Mexico and about 218 m. (by See also:rail) W. of New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans. Pop. (1889) 838, (1890) 3442, (1900) 668o (2407 negroes); (1910) 11,449. It is served by the Louisiana & See also:Texas (See also:Southern Pacific See also:System), the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:Watkins & Gulf, the Louisiana & Pacific and the See also:Kansas City Southern See also:railways. The city is charmingly situated on the See also:shore of Lake Charles, and on the Calcasieu See also:river, which with some dredging can be made navigable for large vessels for 132 M. from the Gulf. It is a See also:winter resort. Among the See also:principal buildings are a See also:Carnegie library, the city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, the See also:Government See also:building, the See also:court See also:house, St See also:Patrick's See also:sanatorium, the masonic See also:temple and the Elks' See also:club. Lake Charles is in the See also:prairie region of southern Louisiana, to the N. of which, covering a large See also:part of the See also:state, are magnificent forests of See also:long-See also:leaf See also:pine, and lesser See also:lowland-LAKE See also:DISTRICT
growths of See also:oak, ash, See also:magnolia, See also:cypress and other valuable See also:timber. The Watkins railway extending to the N.E. and the Kansas City Southern extending to the N.W. have opened up the very best of the See also:forest. The See also:country to the S. and W. is largely given over to See also:rice culture. Lake Charles is the See also:chief centre of See also:lumber manufacture in the state, and has rice See also:mills, See also:car shops and an important See also:trade in See also:wool. Ten See also:miles W. are See also:sulphur mines (product in 1907 about 362,000 tons), which with those of See also:Sicily produce a large part of the See also:total product of the See also:world. Jennings, about 34 M. to the E., is the centre of oil See also:fields, once very productive but now of diminishing importance. Welsh, 23 M. E., is the centre of a newer See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field; and others See also:lie to the N. Lake Charles was settled about 1852, largely by See also:people from See also:Iowa and neighbouring states, was incorporated as a See also:town in 1857 under the name of See also:Charleston and again in x867 under its See also:present name, and was chartered as a city in 1886. The city suffered severely by See also:fire in See also:April 1910.
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