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Port Hudson is an unincorporated community in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States. Located about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Baton Rouge , it is known primarily as the location of an American Civil War battle, the siege of Port Hudson , in 1863.
Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad: IC: 1833 1889 Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway: Colfax and Northern Railway 1901 1903 Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company: Chartered on July 10, 1901 from Aloha to Winnfield. Abandoned prior to the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway merger. Colorado Southern, New Orleans and Pacific Railroad: MP: 1905 ...
Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, [2] and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products and related chemicals, and other forest products—largely made from its own timber.
The current name was adopted in September 1991, [1] when Georgia-Pacific organized the Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad to purchase the A&LM. The AD&N, then owned by Georgia-Pacific as successor to the Crossett Lumber Company, was abandoned in August 1995, [ 9 ] and Genesee & Wyoming Inc. purchased several of Georgia-Pacific's ...
After consolidation, construction between 1882 and 1889 allowed the Georgia Pacific to connect Atlanta, Georgia, and Greenville, Mississippi. [2] Regular service to Atlanta began May 15, 1882, and the road to Birmingham, Alabama, was completed in November 1883. The company was a predecessor of the Southern Railway, which absorbed it after 1894. [2]
Pointe à la Hache: Plaquemines: 98001422 Hermione Plantation House: November 23, 1998: Tallulah: Madison: Relocated from Kell Plantation in rural Madison Parish 78001438 Hazelwood Plantation: July 31, 1978: Laurel Hill: West Feliciana: 86003129 Homestead Plantation Complex: November 6, 1986: Plaquemine: 70000842 Homeplace Plantation House ...
The Siege of Port Hudson was part of a concerted Union effort to gain full control of the Mississippi River. It was conducted May 22 – July 9, 1863, by forces under the command of Major General Nathaniel Prentice Banks, and only ended because the Confederate General Franklin Gardner surrendered after learning of the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi to Union forces.
Attached to 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to August, 1863. Engineer Brigade, Corps de Afrique, to October, 1863. Engineer Brigade, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to April, 1864. Siege of Port Hudson, La., May 24-July 8, 1863. Assaults on Port Hudson May 27 and June 14. Surrender of Port Hudson July 9.