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LOUISIANA , a See also:city of See also:Pike See also:county, See also:Missouri, U.S.A., situated below the mouth of the See also:Salt See also:river, on the western See also:bank of the See also:Mississippi, about 90 m. N. of 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. Pop. (1900) 5131, including 1075 negroes and 161 See also:foreign-See also:born; (191o) 4454; there is also a considerable suburban See also:population. Louisiana is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy and the Chicago & See also:Alton See also:railways, and by several lines of river steamboats. The river is spanned here by a railway See also:bridge. The city is laid out fairly regularly in the river valley and on bluffs along the river, and has attractive residential districts, commanding See also:good views. It has very active and varied See also:industries, and is a See also:trade centre for a large See also:grain- and See also:fruit-producing and stock-raising region, and has one of the largest nurseries in the See also:United States. Louisiana was laid out in 1818, was the county-seat from that date until 1825, was incorporated as a See also:town in 1845 and was chartered as a city in 1849.
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