DYK – Rayne is known as…
Did You Know – Rayne is known as the Frog Capital of the World, dating back to the early 1900’s when Jacques Weil and his brothers had a profitable frog leg export business, shipping to restaurants across the country.
DYK – Grand Opera House is one of only…
Did You Know – Crowley’s Grand Opera House of the South – is one of only three percent of second-story opera houses still standing in the country, with fewer than that still performing arts theaters.
DYK – Crowley City Hall was once…
DYK – The current Crowley City Hall was once the Ford Motor Company Model T dealership. Models are on display in the Ford Automotive Museum.
DYK – J.D. Miller Recording Studio is the oldest…
Did You Know – The J.D. Miller Recording Studio is the oldest recording studio in continuous existence in the state of Louisiana and is best known for its Cajun, Zydeco and Country releases.
Rose Wilder
Rose Wilder was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist who was also the daughter of famed American writer, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Charlene Richard
Proposed Saint
Jo-el Sonnier
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Iry Lejeune
Musician
Floyd Sonnier
Artist
Irene Whitfield Holmes
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