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The Concordia Parish Library is the second oldest Parish Library in Louisiana and the first of such to be tax-supported. [18] The library began as a movement between the President of the Tri-Parish Community Organization who had obtained a community program and a State Librarian at the time, Essae Martha Culver. The two held a dinner where they ...
The Lafayette Municipal Library was created by the Louisiana state government in 1942. On August 6, 1946, its doors officially opened for public use. By 1953, the parish library was expanded to have 10 branch locations, including a bookmobile program. On January 29, 1973, doors opened to the new location of the main library branch in downtown ...
The first floor originally was parish and school board offices, with the second and third floors used for courts and the fourth story used as a jail. [2] [3] In 2019 the building is the Vidalia branch of Concordia Parish Library. The main entrance is what had been the courthouse's rear one, at 408 Texas Street. [4]
Concordia Parish: 99001039 Sandbar Plantation House: September 2, 1999: Port Allen: West Baton Rouge Parish: 74002186 San Francisco Plantation House: May 30, 1974: Reserve: St. John the Baptist Parish: Open for tours 78003448
Lafayette Parish is a part of the region of Acadiana in southern Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 269 square miles (700 km 2), of which 269 square miles (700 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) (0.2%) is water. [6] It is the fifth-smallest parish in Louisiana by land ...
Lafayette Parish School System (LPSS) added a "School of Choice" [9] called the Early College Academy [10] in 2008, which gives high school students (grades 9–12) a chance to graduate with a high school diploma as well as a two-year associate degree in the field of their choice. Students take all courses on the campus of South Louisiana ...
On September 2, 2014, the Library opened the Grey Nuns Reading Room, a silent study space for Concordia students located in the former Chapel of the Invention of the Holy Cross. The Reading Room has seating for 192 students, with an additional 42 chairs in small reading rooms. A Political Science student was the first to enter.
The Concordia University System (CUS) is an organization of five colleges and universities and one satellite campus in the United States that are operated by the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). All of the institutions are named "Concordia"—a reference to the Latin title of The Book of Concord, the collection of Lutheran confessions ...