New Orleans Louisiana
24/7 Louisiana Strategic Prayer Call
Date and Time: Tu / 1 PM CT
Coordinators: Sandra Merritt, Charles Huckabee
Phone: 605-475-3250
Code: 876021 #
About Louisiana
Louisiana is one of the 50 states in the US, located in the West South Central region of the mainland, between Texas and Mississippi, and south of Arkansas. The state features 4,800 km (3,000 mi) of twisty, meandering shorelines along the Gulf of Mexico in the south.
The Sabine River forms two-thirds of the border with Texas, the Mississippi and the Pearl River define sections of the border with the state of Mississippi.
Louisiana originally designated the vast region of the Mississippi basin, which the French explorer La Salle claimed for France in 1682. The French sold the land to the USA as part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The smaller area now known as Louisiana became the 18th state of the USA in 1812.
Groups of indigenous peoples have inhabited the territory of what is now Louisiana for at least 5,500 years. Archeologists have identified more than 100 sites belonging to this mound-builder culture, which also formed an extensive trade network in the eastern part of what is now the United States.
The Watson Brake archaeological site in present-day Ouachita Parish is considered the oldest earthwork mound complex in North America, dating back about 5400 years ago.
First European explorers came to visit Louisiana in 1528 when Spanish conquistadors led by Panfilo de Narváez located the mouth of the Mississippi River. In the late 17th century, French and French Canadian expeditions established footholds on the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast.
With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States acquired almost all of the territory of Louisiana from France. Louisiana was admitted to the union on 30 April 1812 as the 18th state.
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Covenant Document Welcoming the King of Glory into Louisiana