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The Tammanies or Tammany Societies were named for the 17th-century Delaware chief Tamanend or Tammany, revered for his wisdom. Tammany Society members also called him St. Tammany, the Patron Saint of America.
Tamanend ("the Affable"; [3] c. 1625 – c. 1701), historically also known as Taminent, [4] Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, [5] was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle Clan [6] of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the founding [7] [8] peace treaty with William Penn.
The fastest speed ever achieved at St. Thomas Raceway Park was by Jim Epler on July 2, 2000. [4] He drove a Nitro Funny Car at a speed of 296.57 miles per hour (477.28 km/h). [4]
St. Tammany was originally inhabited by numerous Indian peoples, including the Colapissas, Bayou Goulas, Chickasaw, Biloxi, Choctaw and Pensacola nations (although Frederick S. Ellis, in his book St. Tammany Parish: L'autre Côté du Lac, claims that the regionally prominent Choctaw tribe did not arrive in the area until after it had begun to be settled by Europeans).
Covington is a city in, and the parish seat of, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] The population was 11,564 at the 2020 United States census. [3] It is located at a fork of the Bogue Falaya and the Tchefuncte River.
St. Tammany Regional Airport covers an area of 42 acres (17 ha) at an elevation of 39 feet (12 m) above mean sea level.It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,999 by 75 feet (914 x 23 m).
Fontainebleau State Park is located in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.The park is 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) in size and was once the site of a sugar cane plantation and brickyard operated by Bernard de Marigny and later by his son Armand Marigny.
Robert Lee Willie (January 2, 1958 – December 28, 1984) was an American serial killer who killed at least three people in Louisiana from the late 1970s to 1980. He was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 18-year-old Faith Hathaway and was executed in 1984.