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Addis is located at (30.354585, -91.264672 [5]According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km 2), all land.. Addis has a Köppen climate classification of Cfa, which means that Addis has mild temperatures, is fully humid, and a hot summer.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The town of Addis grew up around Baton Rouge Junction. The Texas and Pacific acquired additional right-of-way in 1899 to extend the spur from Port Allen to New Roads, Louisiana and beyond to Alexandria, Louisiana. [17]
The Addis Company, a defunct New York department store which merged with Dey Brothers; Addis Housewares, a British household products company; Addis Fortune, a newspaper; Addis Standard, a news magazine
Map of the United States with Louisiana highlighted. Louisiana is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Louisiana is the 25th most populous state with 4,657,757 inhabitants and the 33rd largest by land area spanning 43,203.90 square miles (111,897.6 km 2) of land. [1]
In the 1990s, the neighborhood was called "Little Addis", referring to Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. [4] In 2002, the city officially bestowed the name "Little Ethiopia" on the neighborhood. [5] By 2006, there were 15 Ethiopian businesses in the neighborhood, including restaurants, markets, a clothing store, a hair salon and a travel agency. [2]
Addis was born in 1857 in Leavenworth, Kansas, [2] and moved with her family to Chihuahua, Mexico, at the start of the American Civil War. [1] The daughter of an itinerant photographer, Alfred Shea Addis, she roamed the Western frontier and Mexican wilderness, into indigenous villages, miners' camps, and other locations, mostly in Mexico and California, assisting her father.
When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by the Mississippi River for France, he named it La Louisiane. [28] The suffix –ana (or –ane) is a Latin suffix that can refer to "information relating to a particular individual, subject, or place." Thus, roughly, Louis + ana carries the idea of "related to Louis."